ف ل ق

Arabic

Root

ف ل ق • (f-l-q)

1. related to splitting, cleaving

Derived terms

• Form I: فَلَقَ (falaqa, “to split, to cleave”)
  • Verbal noun: فَلْق (falq)
  • Active participle: فَالِق (fāliq)
  • Passive participle: مَفْلُوق (maflūq)
• Form II: فَلَّقَ (fallaqa, “to split, to cleave”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفْلِيق (taflīq)
  • Active participle: مُفَلِّق (mufalliq)
  • Passive participle: مُفَلَّق (mufallaq)
• Form IV: أَفْلَقَ (ʔaflaqa)
  • Verbal noun: إِفْلَاق (ʔiflāq)
  • Active participle: مُفْلِق (mufliq)
  • Passive participle: مُفْلَق (muflaq)
• Form V: تَفَلَّقَ (tafallaqa, “to be come split, to become cleft”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفَلُّق (tafalluq)
  • Active participle: مُتَفَلِّق (mutafalliq)
• Form VII: اِنْفَلَقَ (infalaqa, “to be come split, to become cleft”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْفِلَاق (infilāq)
  • Active participle: مُنْفَلِق (munfaliq)
• Form VIII: اِفْتَلَقَ (iftalaqa)
  • Verbal noun: اِفْتِلَاق (iftilāq)
  • Active participle: مُفْتَلِق (muftaliq)
  • Passive participle: مُفْتَلَق (muftalaq)

• فَلَق (falaq, “fissure, cleft; dawn”)
• فِلْقَة (filqa, “half”)
• فَلَّاق (fallāq, “highway robber”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ف ل ق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 370–371
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ف ل ق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2441–2443
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ف ل ق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 804
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ف ل ق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 980–981