لَقِيَ meet in Arabic
لَقِيَ is how you say “meet” in Arabic.
Root ل ق ي l-q-y. verb (form I). laqiya.
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Meaning of meet in Arabic
- to meet, meet with, come face to face with the basic sense: encountering a person or thing
- to find, come upon (in the course of meeting) e.g. 'thou wilt find them lions'
- to encounter, be met with (something good or bad) e.g. laqiyahu bi-makrūh, 'he met with mistreatment from him'
Example sentence
وآخرها تحيّتهم يوم يلقونه سلام
And the final stage is their greeting of peace on the day they meet Him.
يَلْقَوْنَهُ they meet Him
Present-tense verb 'meet' with subject 'they' (the '-na' ending); the ending '-hu' adds 'Him' — 'they meet Him'.
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How it is used
لَقِيَ is the plain verb for meeting or encountering someone or something, and by extension for meeting with (experiencing) good or bad treatment. Related forms branch out: form III lāqā for facing someone directly, form IV alqā for throwing or putting something down, and form X istalqā for lying on one's back — Lane links this spread of senses to the root idea of something arriving at, or being placed at, the point where it will be met.
Words from the same root
- لِقَآءٌ a meeting, encounter; also used for a clash or battle
- أَلْقَى to throw, cast, put down (form IV)
- تَلَقَّى to receive something from someone (form V)
- اِلْتَقَى to meet together, come together (form VIII)
- اِسْتَلْقَى to lie on one's back (form X)
- تِلْقَآءَ in the direction of, facing, towards
- مُلَقًّى greeted (passive participle of laqqā)
More example sentences
إذا ناظرتَهم لم تَلْق منهم سوى حَرْفَيْنِ لِمْ لِمْ لا نُسَلِّمْ
When you debate them, you find nothing from them but the two words, 'why, why, we do not concede.'
تَلْقَ you find
'find, meet', jussive (clipped, its weak vowel dropped) after 'lam' — 'you do not find'.
يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ إنَّك لَوْ أتَيْتنِي بِقُرَابِ الْأَرْضِ خَطَايَا ثُمَّ لَقِيتنِي لَا تُشْرِكُ بِي شَيْئًا لَأَتَيْتُك بِقُرَابِهَا مَغْفِرَةً
O son of Adam! Were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me, not associating anything with Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as it.
لَقِيتَنِي you were then to face Me
Built like the earlier verbs — 'you' within, 'Me' on the end — continuing the supposition: 'were you then to meet Me.' To meet here means to come before God on the Day of Reckoning.
لقيني أبو بكر رضي الله عنه فقال كيف أنت يا حنظلة؟
Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, met me and said: 'How are you, Hanzala?'
لَقِيَنِي met me
A past verb 'met / encountered', with '-ni' = 'me' fused on as its object — 'met me'. The doer (Abu Bakr) is named after the verb, in Arabic's verb-first order. So verb and object ride in one word, subject to follow.
فخرج الجصاص مسرورًا، فلقي رجلاً فقال له من أين جئت بهذه الدراهم؟
Al-Jassas went out happily and met a man who asked him: Where did you get this money from?
فَلَقِيَ and he met
The fa- adds this as the next step in the chain. The verb is past tense carrying its own 'he', and its weak-final root is why the ending shifts to -iya here rather than a plain consonant.
وَإِذَا لَقِيتُمُ النَّاسَ لَقِيتُمُوهُمْ مُخْبِتِينَ،
And when you met people, you met them humbly,
لَقِيتُمُ you met
A past-tense verb, 'you met', with a plural 'you' subject in its ending. It states the recurring action the 'when' introduces.
وَإِذَا لَقِيتُمُ النَّاسَ لَقِيتُمُوهُمْ مُخْبِتِينَ،
And when you met people, you met them humbly,
لَقِيتُمُوهُمْ you met them
A past-tense verb with a plural 'you' subject built in and 'them' attached as object, 'you met them'. The plural rides in the verb's ending and the suffix points back to the people just named.
قَالَ فَانْطَلَقَ أَبُو طَلْحَةَ حَتَّى لَقِيَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
He said, so Abu Talha set out until he met the Messenger of God, may God send blessings and peace upon him.
لَقِيَ he met
A past verb of meeting, its 'he' inside, naming the endpoint the 'until' pointed to. With no prefix it stands as the action the journey arrived at.
وَذَكَرَ اِبْنُ أَبِي الدُّنْيَا عَنْ بَعْضِ السَّلَفِ أَنَّ شَيْطَانًا لَقِيَ شَيْطَانًا
Ibn Abi al-Dunya reported from some of the predecessors that one devil met another.
لقى met
A past-tense verb 'met' with its 'he' subject built in, taking the next noun as the one met. It states the encounter at the heart of the report.
Common questions
- How do you say "meet" in Arabic?
- لَقِيَ (laqiya) — to meet, or meet with, someone or something.
- What is the difference between لَقِيَ and اِلْتَقَى؟
- لَقِيَ (form I) means to meet or encounter someone/something; اِلْتَقَى (form VIII) means to meet together, i.e. two parties coming together mutually.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).