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Arabic root

م-ل-ا

Mim-Lam-Alif

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About this root

Mim-Lam-Alif (م-ل-ا) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: mamlūʾ (full / filled).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 40 times in 40 verses, across 18 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:246.

Themes: Adjectives, Amount

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
مَملوء
mamlūʾ
full / filledadjective, A1Adjectives - Quality & Character

In the Quran

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَمَاتُوا۟ وَهُمْ كُفَّارٌ فَلَن يُقْبَلَ مِنْ أَحَدِهِم مِّلْءُ ٱلْأَرْضِ ذَهَبًا وَلَوِ ٱفْتَدَىٰ بِهِۦٓ ۗ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن نَّـٰصِرِينَ

Lo! those who disbelieve, and die in disbelief, the (whole) earth full of gold would not be accepted from such an one if it were offered as a ransom (for his soul). Theirs will be a painful doom and they will have no helpers.

Quran 3:91
قَالَ ٱخْرُجْ مِنْهَا مَذْءُومًا مَّدْحُورًا ۖ لَّمَن تَبِعَكَ مِنْهُمْ لَأَمْلَأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

He said: Go forth from hence, degraded, banished. As for such of them as follow thee, surely I will fill hell with all of you.

Quran 7:18
قَالَ ٱلْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِهِۦٓ إِنَّا لَنَرَىٰكَ فِى ضَلَـٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ

The chieftains of his people said: Lo! we see thee surely in plain error.

Quran 7:60

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).

Word cards with examples

A1adjective
مَملوء
mamlūʾ

full / filled

Example
الدَّلوُ مَملوء بِالماء
ad-dalwu mamlūʾ bi-l-māʾ
The bucket is full of water
Grammar

Feminine form: mamlūʾa (مَملوءة). Passive participle from malaʾa (مَلَأَ, to fill). Opposite of fārigh (فارِغ).

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