فلق

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ف ل ق‎ (f-l-q).

Verb

فَلَقَ • (falaqa) I, non-past يَفْلِقُ‎‎ (yafliqu)

  1. to split, to cleave
    1. to cause to break (dawn)

Conjugation

Verb

فَلَّقَ • (fallaqa) II, non-past يُفَلِّقُ‎‎ (yufalliqu)

  1. to split, to cleave

Conjugation

Noun

فَلْق • (falq) m (plural فُلُوق‎ (fulūq))

  1. verbal noun of فَلَقَ (falaqa) (form I)
  2. split, cleft, fissure

Declension

Noun

فَلَق • (falaq) m (plural أَفْلَاق‎ (ʔaflāq))

  1. fissure, cleft, kloof
  2. daybreak, dawn
    Synonym: فَجْر‎ (fajr)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 113:1:
      ‏قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ‎‎
      qul ʔaʕūḏu birabbi l-falaqi
      Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the daybreak

Declension

Noun

فِلَق • (filaq) pl

  1. plural of فِلْقَة‎ (filqa)

References

  • “فلق” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), “فلق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 370–371
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “فلق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2441–2442
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “فلق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 804
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “فلق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 980–981
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