Arabic root

ع-ل-و

Ayn-Lam-Waw

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ayn-Lam-Waw (ع-ل-و) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: ʿālin (high / tall), ʿilāwatan ʿalā dhālik (moreover / in addition to that).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 70 times in 68 verses, across 41 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:255. The form عالٍ (high / tall) accounts for 1 of them.

Themes: Adjectives, Position, Advanced Expressions

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
عالٍ ʿālin	high / tall	adjective, A1	1×	Adjectives - Colors & Shapes
عِلَاوَةً عَلَى ذَلِك ʿilāwatan ʿalā dhālik	moreover / in addition to that	phrase, B2		Advanced Idioms

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

وَلَا تَهِنُوا۟ وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا۟ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلْأَعْلَوْنَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

Faint not nor grieve, for ye will overcome them if ye are (indeed) believers.

Quran 3:139

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعَالَوْا۟ إِلَىٰ مَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ وَإِلَى ٱلرَّسُولِ رَأَيْتَ ٱلْمُنَـٰفِقِينَ يَصُدُّونَ عَنكَ صُدُودًا

And when it is said unto them: Come unto that which Allah hath revealed and unto the messenger, thou seest the hypocrites turn from thee with aversion.

Quran 4:61

فَمَآ ءَامَنَ لِمُوسَىٰٓ إِلَّا ذُرِّيَّةٌ مِّن قَوْمِهِۦ عَلَىٰ خَوْفٍ مِّن فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَإِي۟هِمْ أَن يَفْتِنَهُمْ ۚ وَإِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ لَعَالٍ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَإِنَّهُۥ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ

But none trusted Moses, save some scions of his people, (and they were) in fear of Pharaoh and their chiefs, that he would persecute them. Lo! Pharaoh was verily a tyrant in the land, and lo! he verily was of the wanton.

Quran 10:83

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).