Quranic root
ولج
w · l · j
The root centers on the entry of one thing into another, especially entry into an interior or confined space.
The physical idea of entering extends to penetration, causing one thing to enter or overlap another, and figuratively admitting an outsider into an inner circle or relying on such an associate. Related nouns designate places of entry or shelter, repeated entering, and things or persons affected by entry.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
وَلَجَ
walaja
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To enter into or penetrate a place or thing, including by passing through an opening into its interior.
The Quranic uses include entry into a constricted opening and entry into the earth or other created domains; the verb is not restricted to a particular type of object.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:40word 16
“passes”
Quran 34:2word 3
“penetrates”
أَوْلَجَ
ʾawlaja
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 10 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To cause one thing to enter into another; to make it overlap or encroach upon it.
In Quranic usage this is especially applied to the reciprocal increase of night and day, as a portion of one is made to enter into and extend the other.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:61word 4
“causes to enter”
Quran 57:6word 1
“He merges”
وَلِيجَة
walījah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
An outsider admitted as an intimate or trusted associate, or taken as an object of reliance despite not belonging to one's own people.
Used in the Quranic construction of taking someone or something as a وليجة; the referent may be a person or another external entity, and the emphasis is on inner association or reliance outside the proper circle.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:16word 20
“(as) intimates”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:27تُولِجُYou cause to enter
- 3:27وَتُولِجُand You cause to enter
- 7:40يَلِجَpasses
- 9:16وَلِيجَةًۭ ۚ(as) intimates
- 22:61يُولِجُcauses to enter
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 10 Classical meanings
أَوْلَجَ
To insert the penis; hence, to have sexual intercourse.
A conventional Form IV construction distinct from the Quranic use concerning the interpenetration of night and day.
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وُلَجَة
A person who frequently goes out and comes in.
A descriptive noun or epithet for repeated movement outward and inward.
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وَلَجَة
A sheltered place or cavern where travelers take refuge from rain and the like; also a bend or recessed place in a valley.
The valley sense concerns a physical turn or recess and is related to the notion of an inward or sheltered place.
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وَلِيجَة
Anything introduced or inserted into something without belonging to it; an outsider or adherent admitted among a group without being one of its members.
This broader Classical usage covers an inserted thing as well as a person included among others; the Quranic intimate or trusted associate is a specialized usage of the same headword.
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وَالِجَة
A disease or pain affecting the abdomen; in some lexical reports, a pain affecting the teeth.
The sources preserve variation concerning the precise bodily location of the pain.
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أَوْلَج
More or most penetrating, said of language or discourse.
A comparative or superlative adjective applied to the penetrating quality of speech or expression.
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تَوْلَج
A hiding place among trees into which a wild animal enters.
The term denotes a concealed animal refuge, not merely any general place of entry.
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مَوْلِج
A place of entrance or a place into which one enters.
A place noun, with a plural مَوَالِج.
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مَوْلُوج
A person afflicted by the disease called وَالِجَة or دُبَيْلَة.
A passive-result noun referring to the person affected by that disease.
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وَلَج
A path through sand.
Reported as an extension associated with the root's basic notion of entering.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
وَلِيجَة in the Quranic verse is variously explained as an outsider admitted into confidence, a non-family confidant, or specifically an intimate associated with polytheists; these interpretations share the core idea of an external associate taken as an inner reliance.