Arabic root

ط-و-ل

Tah-Waw-Lam

3 words from this root family

About this root

Tah-Waw-Lam (ط-و-ل) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: ṭawīlun (long / tall), ṭāwila (table), ṭālamā (as long as).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 10 times in 10 verses, across 10 of the 114 suras. The first is in 4:25. The form طَوِيلٌ (long / tall) accounts for 2 of them.

Themes: Adjectives, Basics, Dining, Home, Advanced Expressions

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
طَوِيلٌ ṭawīlun	long / tall	adjective, A1	2×	Describing Things - Core Adjectives
طَاوِلَة ṭāwila	table	noun, A1		At the Restaurant - Part 2
طَالَمَا ṭālamā	as long as	phrase, B2		Advanced Idioms

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

In the Quran

وَإِذَآ أُنزِلَتْ سُورَةٌ أَنْ ءَامِنُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ وَجَـٰهِدُوا۟ مَعَ رَسُولِهِ ٱسْتَـْٔذَنَكَ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلطَّوْلِ مِنْهُمْ وَقَالُوا۟ ذَرْنَا نَكُن مَّعَ ٱلْقَـٰعِدِينَ

And when a surah is revealed (which saith): Believe in Allah and strive along with His messenger, the men of wealth among them still ask leave of thee and say: Suffer us to be with those who sit (at home).

Quran 9:86

وَلَا تَمْشِ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مَرَحًا ۖ إِنَّكَ لَن تَخْرِقَ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَلَن تَبْلُغَ ٱلْجِبَالَ طُولًا

And walk not in the earth exultant. Lo! thou canst not rend the earth, nor canst thou stretch to the height of the hills.

Quran 17:37

إِنَّ لَكَ فِى ٱلنَّهَارِ سَبْحًا طَوِيلًا

Lo! thou hast by day a chain of business.

Quran 73:7

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).