كُل all in Arabic
كُل is how you say “all” in Arabic.
Root ك ل ل k-l-l. noun (universal quantifier / indefinite noun). kull.
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Meaning of all in Arabic
- all; every, each the basic distributive/collective quantifier sense, normally followed by a genitive noun or a pronoun suffix
- any one used after a negative plus an exception, e.g. Qur'an 38:13: 'there was not any one (كُلٌّ) but accused the messengers of lying'
- the whole; the utmost degree used in intensifying idioms such as هُوَ العَالِمُ كُلُّ العَالِمِ, 'he is the possessor of knowledge in its entirety', i.e. utterly learned
Example sentence
وَقَوله أفضل كلمة قَالَهَا الشَّاعِر كلمة لبيد أَلا كل شَيْء مَا خلا الله بَاطِل
And his saying: "The best word said by a poet is the word of Labid: Behold, everything other than Allah is futile."
كُلُّ everything
'every, all of', nominative as the subject, head of an 'of' pairing with 'thing' — 'everything'. 'kull' plus an indefinite noun gives 'each and all'.
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How it is used
كُلّ is normally used in construct: followed by a genitive noun (كُلُّ كِتَابٍ, 'every book') or a pronoun suffix (كُلُّهُ, 'all of it'). It combines with مَا and مَنْ to form set expressions such as كُلَّمَا ('whenever, as often as') and كُلَّ مَنْ ('whoever'). It is extremely frequent in Qur'anic and classical Arabic.
Words from the same root
- كَلَّلَ to adorn or crown a thing with gems or jewels
- مُكَلَّلٌ adorned, crowned with gems or jewels
- الإِكْلِيلُ a crown or wreath; also the border of flesh encircling the nail, and a cluster of stars in Scorpio
- كُلِّىٌّ universal, relating to the whole; opposite of particular (juz'iyy)
- كِلَّةٌ a mosquito-curtain, a netting that wholly encloses
More example sentences
أفضل كلمة قَالَهَا الشَّاعِر كلمة لبيد أَلا كل شَيْء مَا خلا الله بَاطِل
"The best phrase the poet Labid said: 'Indeed, everything besides Allah is false.'"
كُلُّ everything
'every, all of', nominative subject, head of an 'of' pairing with 'thing' — 'everything'.
أَلَا وَإِنَّ فِي الْجَسَدِ مُضْغَةً إذَا صَلَحَتْ صَلَحَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ،
Indeed, in the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it is sound, the whole body is sound,
كُلُّهُ the whole
'All of it', 'kull' plus 'it', set after 'the body' to stress totality and sharing its '-u' ending. So 'the body, the whole of it, becomes sound'.
وَإذَا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ،
and if it is corrupted, the whole body is corrupted.
كُلُّهُ the whole
'All of it', 'kull' plus 'it', in apposition and sharing the '-u' ending: 'the body, the whole of it'. The totality is stressed for the corruption just as for the soundness.
إلا أنه لم يكشف لك كل الأمر،
However, it did not disclose to you the whole matter.
كُلَّ the whole
A quantity word, 'all / the whole of', heading a possessive pairing with 'the matter' that follows: 'all the matter'. As the leading noun it carries the object ending of the verb and leans onto the noun ahead for completion.
ولا هو ممن اتقى الله وأنحس من ذلك كله
And neither is he among those who fear God, and worse than all of that,
كُلِّهِ all of it
This is the emphasiser kull 'all, the whole' with the attached -hi 'it', 'the whole of that', in the possessed ending to match the demonstrative it follows. The -hi reaches back to all the listed faults, and kull stresses that the comparison covers every bit of them.
والزم الصدق المفرط عن كل بد في كل شيء ،
And adhere to absolute honesty in everything without exception,
كُلِّ every
This is kull 'every, any', which heads a possessive pairing with the noun after it, owning it, and sits in the possessed ending forced by the preposition before it. It builds the 'without any exception' sense by setting 'every' over the noun that follows.
والزم الصدق المفرط عن كل بد في كل شيء ،
And adhere to absolute honesty in everything without exception,
كُلِّ every
This is kull 'every', which heads a possessive pairing with the noun after it, owning it, and sits in the possessed ending forced by fi before it: 'in every'. It sets 'every' over the following noun to mean 'in absolutely all'.
Common questions
- How do you say "all" in Arabic?
- كُلّ (kull).
- What does كُلّ mean after a negative, as in the Qur'an?
- After a negative and an exception it means 'any one' — as in Qur'an 38:13, 'there was not any one but accused the messengers of lying'.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).