قَلَق anxiety in Arabic
قَلَق is how you say “anxiety” in Arabic.
Root ق ل ق q-l-q. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar). qalaq.
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Meaning of anxiety in Arabic
- unsettledness, restlessness the literal sense: not fixed, steady, or at rest in one's place
- disquiet, agitation, anxiety the extended, now-standard sense: a disturbed, unquiet state of mind
Example sentence
لحظة أثمرت حرارة القلق ألف سنة،
A moment bore the heat of anxiety for a thousand years.
القَلَقِ of anxiety
al- = 'the'; qalaq means 'anxiety, restlessness' — the 'of…' word: 'of anxiety'.
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How it is used
قَلَق is the standard word for anxiety or worry, extending from the concrete sense of something not staying fixed in place to the emotional sense of disquiet, agitation, and unrest.
Words from the same root
- قَلِقَ to become unsettled, restless, or disquieted (form I verb)
- قَلَّقَ to disquiet or disturb someone (form II, causative)
- أَقْلَقَهُ he disquieted/disturbed him; also, he moved a thing from its place (form IV)
- قَلِقٌ unsteady, loose
- قَلَاقَةٌ looseness, e.g. in an expression
More example sentences
قَالَ الصدّيق وَقد اشْتَدَّ بِهِ القلق
The Truthful One, overwhelmed with anxiety, said.
الْقَلَقُ anxiety
The subject of 'intensified', nominative ('-u'), after its verb — his worry. What had grown sharp in Abu Bakr.
فَزَالَ القلق وطاب عَيْش الماكث
So anxiety vanished, and the resident's life became pleasant.
الْقَلَقُ the anxiety
The '-u' ending marks this as the subject that vanished, placed after its verb in the normal order. The noun is the restless churn of worry, now said to be gone.
Common questions
- How do you say "anxiety" in Arabic?
- قَلَق (qalaq) — literally an unsettled, restless state, extended to mean disquiet or anxiety.
- What does the root ق ل ق convey?
- A sense of being unsettled, unsteady, or restless — whether physically not fixed in place or emotionally disturbed and agitated.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).