Quranic root
خلط
kh · l · ṭ
The root centers on bringing distinct things, substances, people, or affairs into contact and combination.
The physical idea of intermingling extends to social association and partnership, figurative confusion, penetration or infection, and related specialized uses.
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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.
خَلَطَ
khalaṭa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To combine or mix things together; in Quranic usage, to combine good and bad deeds in one's conduct.
In 9:102, the phrase concerns alternating between or combining righteous and bad actions, rather than necessarily mixing physical substances.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:102word 4
“They had mixed”
خَالَطَ
khālaṭa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form III
- Form
- III
- 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.
To associate or mix with someone, entering into shared dealings or affairs.
In 2:220, the construction describes association and shared management with the orphans; it does not by itself impose a restriction based on the object's gender, number, or social class.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:220word 12
“you associate with them”
اِخْتَلَطَ
āikhtalaṭa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- 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 become mixed, mingled, joined, or incorporated with something else.
The Quranic occurrences describe material intermingling or joining, including vegetation with water and material joined or mixed with another substance; the broader Classical extension to confusion is not assumed in these occurrences.
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Selected Quran examples
خَلِيطٌ
khalīṭun
- Part of speech
- Noun · partner/associate
- 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.
A partner or co-sharer whose property or rights are joined with another's.
The Quranic occurrence is the plural خُلَطَاءُ and refers to partners in shared property or interests.
- Lane · entry 19852
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 38:24word 11
“the partners”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:220تُخَالِطُوهُمْyou associate with them
- 6:146ٱخْتَلَطَ(is) joined
- 9:102خَلَطُوا۟They had mixed
- 10:24فَٱخْتَلَطَso absorbs
- 18:45فَٱخْتَلَطَthen mingles
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 37 Classical meanings
خَلَطَ
To confuse, confound, or disorder something.
A figurative extension of putting things together without order.
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خَلَّطَ
To create confusion, disorder, or perplexity in an affair or among people.
Also used of a person being in a state of confusion or disorder concerning an affair.
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خَالَطَ
To mix, mingle, commingle, or become incorporated with another thing or group.
Used of substances, animals, people, and groups that are physically mixed together.
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خِلَاطٌ
The commingling of livestock, especially the technical mixing or separating of jointly held animals in relation to alms-tax obligations.
A specialized legal and pastoral usage concerning jointly owned or jointly managed sheep, goats, cattle, or similar livestock.
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خَالَطَ
Of a wolf with sheep or goats: to fall upon them or prey on them.
An idiomatic, figurative use of the idea of mixing with a herd.
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خَالَطَ
To penetrate into or pervade; hence, of disease, anxiety, or wine, to infect or affect someone, and of the intellect to become corrupted or disordered.
The object may be a body, heart, intellect, or other inner faculty; the meaning is extended from entering into and becoming mixed with something.
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خَالَطَ
To have sexual intercourse.
Used of intercourse between a man and a woman, and analogously of a stallion-camel with a female.
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خَالَطَ
To become a copartner with another person or share property, commerce, debt, or rights with him.
A conventional extension of mixing one's affairs or property with another's.
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أَخْلَطَ
To insert the male organ into the female; of a stallion, to cover the female.
A specialized animal-breeding and sexual usage.
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أَخْلَطَ
Of a horse: to fall short or flag in running.
A specialized usage concerning diminished performance in a horse's running.
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تَخَالَطَ
To commingle or become mixed together in war or battle.
Used of opposing or participating groups becoming intermingled during fighting.
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تَخَالَطَ
To mix together in familiar or social intercourse, converse, or become intimate with one another.
A reciprocal social-intercourse construction.
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اِخْتَلَطَ
To become confused, confounded, indiscriminate, disordered, or perplexed.
Used of affairs, darkness, people, or other elements whose distinctions or order have become unclear.
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اِخْتَلَطَ
Of a camel: to become fat, with fat and flesh becoming mixed together.
A specialized description of the bodily condition of a camel.
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اِسْتَخْلَطَ
Of a male camel: to insert its organ into the female or leap the female.
A specialized animal-breeding usage.
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خِلْطٌ
A mixture, admixture, or blended compound, including a medicinal preparation, mixed perfume, mixed dates, or a mixture of bodily humors.
The word may denote the mixture itself or the constituent blend in specialized contexts.
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خِلْطٌ
A person who mixes with others and shows them affection, friendliness, or blandishment.
A figurative personal description; the feminine counterpart is also attested.
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خِلْطٌ
A person of mixed or faulty lineage, including a bastard or one whose parentage is unknown.
A socially evaluative and archaic description of lineage.
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أَخْلَاطٌ
A mixed, medley, or promiscuous multitude or collection of people.
The plural may carry a depreciative sense such as a miscellany or riffraff, depending on context.
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خِلْطٌ
Stupid, foolish, or deficient in sense.
A figurative characterization of a person.
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خِلْطٌ
A crooked bow or arrow, especially one whose wood remains crooked despite attempts to straighten it; by comparison, a crooked or unreliable person or group.
The personal and collective applications are figurative extensions of the crooked weapon sense.
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خَلِطٌ
Good-natured or good in disposition.
A figurative character description distinct from the physical meaning of being mixed.
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خُلْطَةٌ
A state of mixing or mingling together.
A verbal noun or substantive formed from the idea of becoming mixed.
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خُلْطَةٌ
A copartnership or shared association between two parties.
Used of a relationship in which property or affairs are joined.
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خِلْطَةٌ
Social or familiar intercourse.
Refers to habitual social association and intimacy.
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خَلِيطٌ
Mixed, mingled, incorporated, or blended; a substance or preparation composed of mixed constituents.
Attested of mixed fodder, milk, clarified butter, and mixed beverages.
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خَلِيطٌ
A social associate or intimate; in broader usage, a person connected through shared dealings or rights, a neighbor, husband, or paternal cousin.
These relational uses develop from habitual mixing or shared association and are distinct from the Quranic partnership use of the plural خُلَطَاءُ.
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خَلَاطَةٌ
Stupidity, foolishness, or paucity of sense.
A noun denoting the condition or quality of lacking sense.
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خَلِيطَةٌ
Milk of one kind milked upon or mixed with milk of another kind, such as camel's milk with sheep's or goats' milk.
A specialized pastoral term for mixed milking.
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خُلَّيْطَى
A state of confusion or perplexity.
Used in the expression for falling into a confused state or having an affair become perplexing.
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خِلِّيطَى
The creation of confusion or disorder in an affair.
A noun denoting the act or condition of making an affair confused.
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خِلِّيطَىٌّ
A condition in which possessions, livestock, or camels are mixed together.
A specialized phrase describing the commingling of property or herds.
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أَخْلَطُ
More insinuating or invasive than fever; an idiomatic description of something that approaches and affects a person persistently.
A comparative proverbial expression based on fever's repeated access to a person.
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مِخْلَطٌ
One who makes things confused or dubious to hearers or observers.
Describes a person whose manner of presentation obscures distinctions or certainty.
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مِخْلَطٌ
One who enters into affairs and then relinquishes or abandons them.
A conventional description of an intrusive or changeable participant in affairs.
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مُخَالَطٌ
Mentally corrupted, disordered, confused, insane, or affected by diabolical possession.
A passive personal description focused on the condition of the intellect or mind.
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مُخْتَلِطٌ
A camel that has become fat so that its fat is mixed with its flesh.
A specialized animal description; the feminine form applies to a she-camel.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic nominal is attested in the plural خُلَطَاءُ and is normalized to the supported singular citation form خَلِيطٌ. The supplied QAC location 38:24 is used; Lane's historical citation notation is not converted into a modern location.