Arabic root

خ-و-ل

Kha-Waw-Lam

2 words from this root family

About this root

Kha-Waw-Lam (خ-و-ل) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: khāl (uncle (maternal)), khāla (aunt (maternal)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 8 times in 6 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 4:23. The form خَالَة (aunt (maternal)) accounts for 3 of them.

Themes: Family, Basics

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
خَال khāl	uncle (maternal)	noun, A1	2×	Extended Family
خَالَة khāla	aunt (maternal)	noun, A1	3×	Extended Family

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

In the Quran

فَإِذَا مَسَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ ضُرٌّ دَعَانَا ثُمَّ إِذَا خَوَّلْنَـٰهُ نِعْمَةً مِّنَّا قَالَ إِنَّمَآ أُوتِيتُهُۥ عَلَىٰ عِلْمٍۭ ۚ بَلْ هِىَ فِتْنَةٌ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

Now when hurt toucheth a man he crieth unto Us, and afterward when We have granted him a boon from Us, he saith: Only by force of knowledge I obtained it. Nay, but it is a test. But most of them know not.

Quran 39:49

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).