Arabic root

خ-ل-ق

3 words from this root family

B2noun

أَخْلَاق

akhlāq

ethics / morals

Example

الأَخلاقُ أساسُ كُلِّ مُجتَمَع.

al-akhlāqu asāsu kulli mujtamaʿ.

Ethics are the foundation of every society.

Root: خ-ل-ق Academic Formal

A2verb

خَلَقَ

khalaqa

he created

Example

خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ

khalaqa al-insāna min ʿalaq

He created man from a clinging substance (96:2)

Root: خ-ل-ق Quranic

Grammar

Form I verb. Past: خَلَقَ, Present: يَخْلُقُ. Related: خَلْقٌ (creation), خَالِقٌ (creator), مَخْلُوقٌ (creature). God is الْخَالِقُ (The Creator).

Culture

Surah Al-ʿAlaq (96), containing this verse, is believed to contain the first words revealed to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, beginning with 'Read!' (Iqraʾ).

A1noun

الْخَالِقُ

al-Khāliq

The Creator (divine name)

Example

هُوَ اللَّهُ الْخَالِقُ الْبَارِئُ الْمُصَوِّرُ

huwa Allāhu al-Khāliqu al-Bāriʾu al-Muṣawwir

He is Allah, the Creator, the Originator, the Fashioner (59:24)

Root: خ-ل-ق Quranic

Grammar

Active participle of خَلَقَ (to create). Three divine names of creation appear together: الخَالِق (Creator), البَارِئ (Originator), المُصَوِّر (Fashioner).

Culture

The distinction between Creator and creation is absolute in Islamic theology — only God creates from nothing (ex nihilo).