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Arabic root

ر-ح-ل

Ra-Ha-Lam

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About this root

Ra-Ha-Lam (ر-ح-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: riḥla (trip / journey).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 12:62.

Themes: Travel

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
رِحْلة
riḥla
trip / journeynoun, A2At the Hotel

In the Quran

وَقَالَ لِفِتْيَـٰنِهِ ٱجْعَلُوا۟ بِضَـٰعَتَهُمْ فِى رِحَالِهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَعْرِفُونَهَآ إِذَا ٱنقَلَبُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ

He said unto his young men: Place their merchandise in their saddlebags, so that they may know it when they go back to their folk, and so will come again.

Quran 12:62
فَلَمَّا جَهَّزَهُم بِجَهَازِهِمْ جَعَلَ ٱلسِّقَايَةَ فِى رَحْلِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ أَذَّنَ مُؤَذِّنٌ أَيَّتُهَا ٱلْعِيرُ إِنَّكُمْ لَسَـٰرِقُونَ

And when he provided them with their provision, he put the drinking-cup in his brother's saddlebag, and then a crier cried: O camel-riders! Lo! ye are surely thieves!

Quran 12:70
إِۦلَـٰفِهِمْ رِحْلَةَ ٱلشِّتَآءِ وَٱلصَّيْفِ

For their taming (We cause) the caravans to set forth in winter and summer.

Quran 106:2

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

A2noun
رِحْلة
riḥla

trip / journey

Example
كانَت الرِحْلة مُمْتِعة.
kānat ar-riḥla mumtiʿa.
The trip was enjoyable.

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