Dictionaries

  • Ejtaal Arabic Almanac: Lane's Lexicon, Hans Wehr, Lisan al-Arab and others
  • Perseus: Lane's Lexicon (in text format)
    • lqf
    • lqf (if it is not found in the link above)
The root lqf (ل ق ف) occurs 3 times in Quran, in 1 derived forms:
  • 3 times as verb tlqf

tlqf

1

7:117

And [then] We inspired Moses, "Throw down thy staff!" -and lo! it swallowed up all their deceptions:*

wawHyna alya mwsya an alq ASak faźa hy tlqf ma yafkwn

واوحينا الى موسى ان الق عصاك فاذا هى تلقف ما يافكون

2

20:69

And [now] throw that [staff] which is in thy right hand -it shall swallow up all that they have wrought: [for] they have wrought only a sorcerer's artifice, and the sorcerer can never come to any good, whatever he may aim at!"*

walq ma fy ymynk tlqf ma SnAwa anma SnAwa kyd saHr wla yflH alsaHr Hyś atya

والق ما فى يمينك تلقف ما صنعوا انما صنعوا كيد سحر ولا يفلح الساحر حيث اتى

3

26:45

[But] then Moses threw his staff - and lo! it swallowed up all their deceptions.*

falqya mwsya ASah faźa hy tlqf ma yafkwn

فالقى موسى عصاه فاذا هى تلقف ما يافكون