خَلْق people in Arabic
خَلْق is how you say “people” in Arabic.
Root خ ل ق kh-l-q. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar of form I خَلَقَ). khalq.
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Meaning of people in Arabic
- creation; created beings, mankind, people the collective sense behind the gloss "people" — creation viewed as a whole
- the act of creating; God's bringing a thing into existence after it was nothing as an act of God: originating something with no pre-existing model to copy
- the act of measuring or proportioning material — e.g. a hide — before cutting or making it the primary, literal sense from which the 'creating' sense is said to extend
- (tropical) fabricating or forging speech, a saying, or a lie used of concocted tales or falsehoods, not literal creation
Example sentence
من عظم وقار الله فِي قلبه أَن يعصيه، وقّره الله فِي قُلُوب الْخلق أَن يذلّوه
Whoever holds Allah's reverence so great in his heart that it prevents him from disobeying Him, Allah will place such reverence in the hearts of people that they will not humiliate him.
الْخَلْقِ of the people
al- = 'the'; khalq means 'creation', here 'people' — the 'of…' word: 'of the people'.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
Khalq's root sense is technical — measuring or proportioning material, as when a hide is measured before it is cut. From this the word extends to God's creating: bringing something into being to an exact measure, and, in the Qur'an, creating out of nothing. From that sense khalq also stands for the creation collectively — created beings, mankind, "people" — which is the gloss given here.
Words from the same root
- خُلُقٌ innate character, disposition, or nature — the temperament one is "created" with
- خِلْقَةٌ natural form, physical make, or bodily constitution
- خَلَقٌ worn-out, old (said of a garment)
- خَلِقٌ smooth, even (said of a surface such as rock)
- أَخْلَقَ to become worn out, old (of a garment) — form IV
- خَلَّقَهُ to make it smooth or even (e.g. wood, an arrow) — form II
More example sentences
لا يشبهه شئ من كلام الخلق ولا يقدر على مثله الخلق بأسرهم
Nothing from the speech of creation resembles it, nor can the entire creation produce anything like it.
الخَلْقِ the creation
Owner in 'speech of creation,' in the -i form. A single collective word covers all created beings, set in contrast against the uncreated speech of God.
لا يشبهه شئ من كلام الخلق ولا يقدر على مثله الخلق بأسرهم
Nothing from the speech of creation resembles it, nor can the entire creation produce anything like it.
الخَلْقُ the creation
Now the doer of 'is able' finally appears, closing on -u. Holding the subject back to the end, after its object, throws the spotlight onto 'creation' — all of it, as the next word stresses.
وَأَظْهَرَ فِي الْأَرْضِ الْفَسَادَ وَالْجَوْرَ وَالْكَذِبَ وَخَالَفَ الْخَلْقَ،
And who spread corruption, injustice, and falsehood on earth and opposed creation.
الْخَلْقَ creation
This noun 'the creation' is the direct object of 'opposed', carrying the object ending, made definite by 'the'. It names what was opposed, completing the clause.
التاسع أنه لا ارتباط بين النظر في مبدأ خلقه ورد الماء في الاحليل بعد خروجه
The ninth point is that there is no connection between reflecting on the origin of his creation and the return of the water to the urethra after it has exited.
خَلْقِهِ of his creation
This verbal noun names creation as a thing, with an attached possessive pronoun, so 'his creation'. It is the owned half of the pairing begun by the previous word, and the owner pronoun is glued onto its back in the usual Arabic way.
بخلاف الارتباط الذي بين المبدأ والمعاد والخلق الأول والخلق الثاني والنشأة الأولى والنشأة الثانية
Unlike the connection between the origin and the resurrection, the first creation and the second creation, and the first life and the second life.
وَالخَلْقِ and the creation
The wa- starts a second matched pair, and the noun carries 'the', naming creation. It opens a description completed by the ordinal after it, and as a definite noun it stands as one side of the next 'between' relationship.
بخلاف الارتباط الذي بين المبدأ والمعاد والخلق الأول والخلق الثاني والنشأة الأولى والنشأة الثانية
Unlike the connection between the origin and the resurrection, the first creation and the second creation, and the first life and the second life.
وَالخَلْقِ and the creation
The wa- adds the matching member, and the noun carries 'the', naming creation again. It pairs with 'the first creation' just given, set up to be completed by 'second', so the contrast 'first creation versus second creation' is built.
فلا إخلاص للخلق ولا إحسان للمخلوق
There is neither devotion to the Creator nor benevolence to the creation.
لِلْخَلْقِ to the creation
This noun has the preposition 'for/to' fused to its front and carries 'the', so 'for the Creator'. The preposition marks toward whom the sincerity would be owed, governing the noun into the prepositional form.
قال مقاتل بما تبصرون من الخلق ومالا تبصرون منه
Maqatil said: by what you see of creation and what you do not see of it.
الْخَلْقِ creation
'Creation' with 'the', standing in the form the preceding preposition governs. It names the category, the created world, from which the seen things are drawn.
أحدها أنه تعالى فوق خلقه كلهم
One of them is that He, exalted be He, is above all His creation.
خَلْقِهِ His creation
The noun 'creation' with a 'his' ending, heading the pairing 'His creation', the suffix marking it as God's. Standing after 'above', it takes the governed form, giving 'above His creation'.
ونقل فكرته في مجاري الخلق والأمر
And he directed his thoughts through the courses of creation and command.
الْخَلْقِ of creation
'Creation' as the owning noun in 'the courses of creation', in the owner form of the chain. The form supplies the 'of' link; it pairs with the next noun to give 'creation and command'.
عليه قتمة عند خلائق من الناس،
Upon him was a dark stain in the view of some people.
خَلَائِقٍ some people
This noun, throngs, is in the genitive after the viewpoint preposition and indefinite, and it heads a partitive phrase with the next preposition. It names the multitudes in whose eyes the stain appears.
وصيرها مساكن الخلق تربيهم صغارًا وتضمهم رفاتا،
And He made it the dwellings of creation, nurturing them as infants and receiving them as remains,
الْخَلْقِ of creation
The owning half of 'dwellings of creation', in the genitive because it completes the possessive pairing. The 'the' makes it definite, and the ending and order carry the 'of' with no separate word, naming whose dwellings the earth became.
يَقُول الله يَا ابْن آدم إِنَّمَا هِيَ ارْبَعْ وَاحِدَة لي وَوَاحِدَة لَك وَوَاحِدَة بيني وَبَيْنك وَوَاحِدَة بَيْنك وَبَين خلقي
Allah says, 'O son of Adam, there are four things: one for Me, one for you, one between Me and you, and one between you and My creation.'
خَلْقِي My creation
This noun pairs with the attached 'my' as its owner, 'My creation', the created beings belonging to God. It sits in the genitive because the preposition 'between' governs it, completing the final relationship.
وَأَمّا الَّتِي بَيْنك وَبَين خلقي فأت للنَّاس مَا تحب أَن يَأْتُوا إِلَيْك
And as for the one that is between you and My creation, it is that you treat people as you would love for them to treat you.
خَلْقِي My creation
This noun pairs with the attached 'my' as its owner, 'My creation', the created people belonging to God. It sits in the genitive because the preposition 'between' governs it, completing the relationship phrase.
فَأَوَّلُ عُقُوبَاتِهِمْ إِعْرَاضُهُمْ عَنْ الْحَقِّ شُغْلًا بِالْخَلْقِ،
The first of their punishments is that they turn away from the truth, becoming preoccupied with people.
بالخلق with people
The bi- preposition marks what the preoccupation is with, taking the noun into the genitive, and the al- makes that noun definite ('the people' as a known whole). Together they complete the circumstantial phrase by naming exactly what fills the attention that was pulled from the truth.
وَإِنِّي رَأَيْتُ خَلْقًا كَثِيرًا غَرَّهُمْ الشَّبَابُ،
And I saw many people whom youth had deceived,
خلقًا people
A noun used collectively for a mass of people, set in the object (accusative) form because it is what the verb 'saw' acts upon. Its ending flags it as the direct object, the crowd observed, and the following adjective will describe how numerous it is.
أي فلينظر نظر الفكر والاستدلال ليعلم أن الذي ابتدأ أول خلقه من نطفة قادر على إعادته
Meaning, let him look with thought and reasoning to know that He who began his creation from a sperm-drop is able to resurrect him.
خَلْقِهِ his creation
The owner half of the pair, fused with '-hi' for 'his creation', the '-hi' pointing back to man; it carries the possessor ending and feeds 'first' before it. Juxtaposition plus suffix builds 'the first of his creation'.
أي على رجعه إليه يوم القيامة كما هو قادر على خلقه من ماء هذا شأنه هذا هو الصحيح في معنى الآية
Meaning, He is capable of returning him to Him on the Day of Resurrection just as He is capable of creating him from water. This is the correct interpretation of the verse.
خَلْقِهِ creating him
A verbal-noun (the act of 'creating' frozen into a noun) fused with '-hi' for 'creating him', the '-hi' pointing to man; it sits in the form 'upon' governs. The noun-form lets the action be the object of the ability.
Common questions
- How do you say "people" in Arabic?
- خَلْق (khalq) — literally "creation"; used to mean created beings or mankind collectively.
- What does the root خ ل ق mean?
- Its core sense is to measure or proportion something, extended to mean "create" (bring into being to a set measure); other words from the same root mean "smooth" or "worn out."
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).