عَلِقَ attach in Arabic
عَلِقَ is how you say “attach” in Arabic.
Root ع ل ق ʿ-l-q. verb (form I). ʿaliqa.
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Meaning of attach in Arabic
- to hang, cling, or stick fast to something the primary physical sense, e.g. thorns catching on a garment
- to become caught, entangled, or held fast said of an animal snared and unable to get loose
- to fall in love with, become attached to someone
- to begin, set about doing something
Example sentence
إِذا علقت شروش الْمعرفَة فِي أَرض الْقلب نَبتَت فِيهِ شَجَرَة الْمحبَّة،
When the roots of knowledge take hold in the soil of the heart, the tree of love grows there.
عَلِقَتْ take hold
Past-tense verb 'clung, took hold'; the '-at' ending marks the feminine subject (the roots).
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
Construed with بِ (to cling to something), ʿaliqa spans a literal sense — thorns catching on cloth, an animal caught in a snare — through to the figurative sense of falling in love or becoming emotionally attached, where it is used interchangeably with taʿallaqa and iʿtalaqa.
Words from the same root
- تَعَلَّقَ to become attached, cling to, fall in love with (used interchangeably with ʿaliqa in the love sense)
- إِعْتَلَقَ to become attached or cling to; a near-synonym of taʿallaqa
- علّقهُ to make attached; in the passive, to be made to fall in love or become enamoured
- عَلَاقَةٌ an attachment or bond, as in the 'bond of love'
- عُلُوقٌ verbal noun for becoming caught, entangled, or clinging fast
- عَلَقٌ verbal noun of ʿaliqa: a clinging or attaching
Common questions
- How do you say "attach" in Arabic?
- عَلِقَ (ʿaliqa).
- What is the core meaning of the root ع ل ق?
- The root carries the sense of hanging, clinging, or becoming attached to something, whether literally (like thorns on cloth) or figuratively (like falling in love).
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).