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أَهْلَكَ

to make perish

VerbForm IVRoot ه-ل-ك

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Highlights

Present tense
يُهْلِكُ
Verbal noun
إِهْلَاك
Active participle
مُهْلِك
Passive participle
مُهْلَك

Most common words from the same root

Adjective
هَالِك
mortal
Verb · Form I
هَلَكَ
To cease to exist
Verb · Form X
اِسْتَهْلَكَ
to exhaust oneself
Verb · Form I
هَلَكَ
to ruin
Verb · Form I
هَلَكَ
to be avaricious
Noun
هَلَاك
death

أَهْلَكَ in English

Verb · Form IV

  1. to make perish; to destroy, to extinguish
    1. to kill transitive
      وَقَالُوا۟ مَا هِیَ إِلَّا حَیَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنۡیَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحۡیَا وَمَا یُهۡلِكُنَاۤ إِلَّا ٱلدَّهۡرُ ۚ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَ ٰ⁠لِكَ مِنۡ عِلۡمٍ ۖ إِنۡ هُمۡ إِلَّا یَظُنُّونَThey said, "It is only this life and this world. It is here that we die, and it is here that we live. Only time extinguishes us." But they do not know it! They only speculate!609–632 CE, Qur'an, 45:24
    2. to wipe out; to exterminate; to cleanse transitive
      وَأَنَّهُ أَهْلَكَ عَادًا الأُولَى / وَثَمُودَ فَمَا أَبْقَىAnd that it was he who exterminated ʿĀd, the first, / And Ṯamūd, he did not leave out.609–632 CE, Qur'an, section 53

Words from the root ه-ل-ك

Arabic verbs come in forms; each form's nouns are listed under its verb. See the whole root on one page →

هَلَكَ · present يَهْلِكُ
Form I · The plain action

To cease to exist, to vanish from being, to perish; to die; to perish spiritually, to be doomed, to be eternally damned

هَلَاك
Verbal noun
death
هُلْك
Verbal noun
هُلُوك
Verbal noun
تُهْلُوك
Verbal noun
تَهْلَكَة
Verbal noun
تَهْلِكَة
Verbal noun
تَهْلُكَة
Verbal noun
danger
مَهْلِكَة
Verbal noun
هَالِك
Active participle · Adjective
mortal
مَهْلُوك
Passive participle
هَلَكَ · present يَهْلِكُ
Form I · The plain action

to ruin, to annihilate, to destroy

هَلْك
Verbal noun
هَالِك
Active participle
مَهْلُوك
Passive participle
هَلَكَ · present يَهْلِكُ
Form I · The plain action

to be avaricious, to be greedy

هَلَاك
Verbal noun
هَالِك
Active participle
هَلِكَ · present يَهْلَكُ
Form I · The plain action

to perish

هَلَك
Verbal noun
أَهْلَكَ · present يُهْلِكُ
Form IV · Causative

to make perish; to destroy, to extinguish

إِهْلَاك
Verbal noun
مُهْلِك
Active participle
مُهْلَك
Passive participle
تَهَالَكَ · present يَتَهَالَكُ
Form VI · Mutual action

to struggle, to strive; to throw oneself, to fall; to covet greedily

تَهَالُك
Verbal noun
مُتَهَالِك
Active participle
مُتَهَالَك
Passive participle
اِنْهَلَكَ · present يَنْهَلِكُ
Form VII · Passive or resultative

to put oneself in danger, to act desperately, to rush into danger; to act earnestly and eagerly

اِنْهِلَاك
Verbal noun
مُنْهَلِك
Active participle
مُنْهَلَك
Passive participle
اِهْتَلَكَ · present يَهْتَلِكُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to put oneself in danger, to act desperately, to rush into danger

اِهْتِلَاك
Verbal noun
مُهْتَلِك
Active participle
مُهْتَلَك
Passive participle
اِسْتَهْلَكَ · present يَسْتَهْلِكُ
Form X · Seeking or considering

to exhaust oneself, to exert oneself to the limit; to use up, to exhaust; to consume, to expend, to spend

اِسْتِهْلَاك
Verbal noun
consumption
مُسْتَهْلِك
Active participle
consumer
مُسْتَهْلَك
Passive participle
هَالُوك
Noun · m.
broomrape

أَهْلَكَ conjugation

Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.

PronounPastPresentSubjunctiveJussiveImperative
أَنَا Iأَهْلَكْتُأُهْلِكُأُهْلِكَأُهْلِكْ—
أَنْتَ you (m.)أَهْلَكْتَتُهْلِكُتُهْلِكَتُهْلِكْأَهْلِكْ
أَنْتِ you (f.)أَهْلَكْتِتُهْلِكِينَتُهْلِكِيتُهْلِكِيأَهْلِكِي
هُوَ heأَهْلَكَيُهْلِكُيُهْلِكَيُهْلِكْ—
هِيَ sheأَهْلَكَتْتُهْلِكُتُهْلِكَتُهْلِكْ—
أَنْتُمَا you twoأَهْلَكْتُمَاتُهْلِكَانِتُهْلِكَاتُهْلِكَاأَهْلِكَا
هُمَا they two (m.)أَهْلَكَايُهْلِكَانِيُهْلِكَايُهْلِكَا—
هُمَا they two (f.)أَهْلَكَتَاتُهْلِكَانِتُهْلِكَاتُهْلِكَا—
نَحْنُ weأَهْلَكْنَانُهْلِكُنُهْلِكَنُهْلِكْ—
أَنْتُمْ you all (m.)أَهْلَكْتُمْتُهْلِكُونَتُهْلِكُواتُهْلِكُواأَهْلِكُوا
أَنْتُنَّ you all (f.)أَهْلَكْتُنَّتُهْلِكْنَتُهْلِكْنَتُهْلِكْنَأَهْلِكْنَ
هُمْ they (m.)أَهْلَكُوايُهْلِكُونَيُهْلِكُوايُهْلِكُوا—
هُنَّ they (f.)أَهْلَكْنَيُهْلِكْنَيُهْلِكْنَيُهْلِكْنَ—
Verbal nounإِهْلَاك
Active participleمُهْلِك
Passive participleمُهْلَك

أَهْلَكَ in a sentence

Dictionary examples

to kill

وَقَالُوا۟ مَا هِیَ إِلَّا حَیَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنۡیَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحۡیَا وَمَا یُهۡلِكُنَاۤ إِلَّا ٱلدَّهۡرُ ۚ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَ ٰ⁠لِكَ مِنۡ عِلۡمٍ ۖ إِنۡ هُمۡ إِلَّا یَظُنُّونَThey said, "It is only this life and this world. It is here that we die, and it is here that we live. Only time extinguishes us." But they do not know it! They only speculate!609–632 CE, Qur'an, 45:24

to wipe out

وَأَنَّهُ أَهْلَكَ عَادًا الأُولَى / وَثَمُودَ فَمَا أَبْقَىAnd that it was he who exterminated ʿĀd, the first, / And Ṯamūd, he did not leave out.609–632 CE, Qur'an, section 53

From a fully vowelled text

اَلْجَمِيلَةُ اللَّطِيفَةُ ابْنَةُ صِهْيَوْنَ أُهْلِكُهَا.I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.Jeremiah 6:2, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
يَحْفَظُ الرَّبُّ كُلَّ مُحِبِّيهِ، وَيُهْلِكُ جَمِيعَ الأَشْرَارِ.The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.Psalms 145:20, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ الْفَرِّيسِيُّونَ تَشَاوَرُوا عَلَيْهِ لِكَيْ يُهْلِكُوهُ،Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.Matthew 12:14, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV

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