خِذْلَان letting down in Arabic
خِذْلَان is how you say “letting down” in Arabic.
Root خ ذ ل kh-dh-l. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar of form I خَذَلَ). khidhlān.
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Meaning of letting down in Arabic
- failure to aid or support someone; abandonment the act of holding back from helping, forsaking, or deserting a person who needed assistance
- God's withholding of aid or preservation from a person a theological extension, applied to divine failure to preserve someone from an evil action or its consequences
Example sentence
وَإِن عمل سيّئة رَآهَا من تخلّيه عَنهُ وخذلانه لَهُ،
And if he commits a bad deed, he sees it as resulting from His abandonment of him and His forsaking him,
وَخِذْلَانِهِ and His letting him down
wa- = 'and'; khidhlan means 'forsaking, failing to help'; the ending '-hi' adds 'His' — 'His forsaking'.
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How it is used
Khidhlān names the act of leaving someone without help at the moment they need it most — the opposite of aiding or supporting them. Lane also records a theological sense: God's khidhlān is His withdrawal of support from a person, letting him fall into error; a verb from this same root appears in this sense in Qur'an 3:154, warning that if God withholds His aid, no one else can help.
Words from the same root
- خَذَلَ he failed to aid him, held back from helping, or forsook/deserted him
- خذّل he induced someone to withhold aid, or discouraged him from fighting/helping
- تخاذلوا they abandoned one another, each failing to aid the other
- إِنْخَذَلَ to be left without aid, forsaken
- خَذُولٌ one who habitually fails to give aid; applied to Satan in the Qur'an
- خَاذِلٌ one who withholds aid; a deserter
- مَخْذُولٌ forsaken, left with no helper
More example sentences
ومَن شرد عنه بخذلانه فإنما شرد بها
And whoever strays from Him by His forsaking, only truly strays through them.
بِخِذْلَانِهِ by His abandonment
bi- = 'by, with'; khidhlan means 'forsaking, failing to help'; the ending '-hi' adds 'His' — 'by His forsaking'.
Common questions
- How do you say "letting down" in Arabic?
- خِذْلَان (khidhlān) — failing to give someone the aid or support they needed.
- What is the root of خِذْلَان and what other words come from it?
- It comes from the root خ ذ ل (kh-dh-l), meaning to abandon or withhold aid. Related words include خَذَلَ (to forsake/fail to aid), خَذُولٌ (one who habitually deserts), and مَخْذُولٌ (forsaken, helpless).
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).