See also: قلف, قلق, فلو, and قلو

Arabic

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Root
ف ل ق (f-l-q)

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

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Verb

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

  1. to split, to cleave

Conjugation

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Noun

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فَلْق (falqm (plural فُلُوق (fulūq))

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

Declension

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فَلَق (falaqm (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

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Noun

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فِلَق (filaqpl

  1. plural of فِلْقَة (filqa)

References

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  • 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[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 370–371
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فلق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2441–2442
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فلق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 804
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فلق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 980–981