qalqala

unrest, agitation, disturbance

قَلْقَلَة

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْلَلَة

Root

ق ل ق

Forms

Plural: قَلاقِل

In the library

وذلك أن الأصوات لها كيفيات من الهمس والجهر والرخاوة والشدة والقلقلة والضغط وغير ذلك، والتناسب فيها هو الذي يوجب لها الحسن.

The Muqaddimah, page 253 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 5 entries

قَلِقَ Form I It was, or became, unsettled, unsteady, unfixed, loose, mobile, unquiet, or restless

, aor. , (M, Msb, TA,) inf. n. قَلَقٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) It was, or became, unsettled, unsteady, unfixed, loose, mobile, unquiet, or restless; it did not settle, become fixed or motionless or quiet or at rest, or it did not rest or remain or continue, in its place. (TA.) He, or it, became disquieted, disturbed, agitated, flurried, or in a state of unrest or commotion; syn. اِنْزَعَجَ, (S, K, TA,) and اِضْطَرَبَ. (M, Msb.) ― -b2- قَلِقَ إِلَيْهِ, or الى لِقَايأِهِ, see جَنَبَ.
قَلَّقَ Form II Open entry

see 4.
أَقْلَقَهُ Form IV He, or it, disquieted him; disturbed him; agitated him; flurried him

He, or it, disquieted him; disturbed him; agitated him; flurried him. (S, Msb.) He moved it, a thing, from its place; as also ↓ قَلَّقَهُ. (M.)
قَلِقٌ Unsteady; loose

Unsteady; loose. ― -b2- عِبَارَةٌ قَلْقَةٌ A loose expression. (TA &c., passim.)
قَلَاقَةٌ Looseness

Looseness in an expression. (TA &c., passim.)

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