Arabic vocabulary
مَلَاذٌrefuge in Arabic
مَلَاذٌ is how you say “refuge” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Root ل و ذ (l-w-ḏ)noun (noun of place / ism makān)Pronounced malāḏ
Meaning of refuge in Arabic
- a place of refuge, shelter, or protection — a place to which one has recourse for safety, preservation, or concealment
- a fortress, stronghold, or fortified place
Malāḏ is the noun-of-place formed from the verb lāḏa ("to seek refuge in"), so it names the place or thing itself sought for safety — Lane's records it covering both a simple place of shelter and, more specifically, a fortress or stronghold people flee to for protection.
Words from the same root
- لَاذَ(form I) to have recourse to someone/something for refuge; to seek shelter in; to protect or conceal oneself by
- لَاوَذَ(form III) to seek refuge in one another; also, to circumvent or wheedle someone
- أَلْوَذَ(form IV) to cause another to take refuge in someone or something; to shelter another by means of it
- لَوْذٌthe side or flank of a mountain and its surrounding area; a bend in a valley
- مِلْوَذَةٌa place of refuge (synonym of malāḏ)
- مُلَاوِذٌused of good that comes only after hard toil, as in the phrase 'khayrun mulāwiḏ' (scant good)
Common questions
- How do you say "refuge" in Arabic?
- مَلَاذٌ (malāḏ) — a place of refuge, shelter, or protection.
- What is the root of مَلَاذٌ and what does it mean?
- It comes from the root ل و ذ (l-w-ḏ), via the verb لَاذَ (lāḏa), "to seek refuge or shelter in someone/something."
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
ولا يرى الملتجي إلى غيره ملاذا،
Nor does the one who seeks shelter in other than Him see refuge.
مَلَاذٗا — refuge. This is the object of the verb 'sees', and its -an ending marks it as an indefinite object, 'a refuge'. Under the negation governing the verb, it states that no such refuge is found by the one who looks elsewhere.
From: Signs of God's Transcendence →
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