# Za-Lam-Kaf — زلق (zlq)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/zlq

- **Meaning:** to slip/slide, to become disgusted by it and withdraw from it, he removed him from his place, he looked sharply or intently, a slippery place, to shave one's head, smooth rock
- **Derived forms:** زَلَق (1) · يُزْلِقُ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 40

- **Form in this verse:** زَلَقًا — zalaqan · "slippery"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

فَعَسٰى رَبّ۪ٓي اَنْ يُؤْتِيَنِ خَيْراً مِنْ جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَاناً مِنَ السَّمَٓاءِ فَتُصْبِحَ صَع۪يداً زَلَقاًۙ

FaAAasa rabbee an yu/tiyani khayranmin jannatika wayursila AAalayha husbananmina assama-i fatusbiha saAAeedanzalaqa

“It may be that my Lord will give me better than thy garden, and will send upon it a calamity from the sky, so that it becomes miry ground

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-40.md_

### 68. Surah Al-Qalam, Verse 51

- **Form in this verse:** لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ — layuz'liqūnaka · "surely make you slip"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

وَاِنْ يَكَادُ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِاَبْصَارِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا الذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ اِنَّهُ لَمَجْنُونٌۢ

Wa-in yakadu allatheenakafaroo layuzliqoonaka bi-absarihim lamma samiAAooaththikra wayaqooloona innahu lamajnoon

And those who ignore warning almost cause thee to slip with their eyes when they hear the remembrance, and they say: “He is possessed.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qalam/verse-51.md_

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