وَقَضَىٰ رَبُّكَ أَلَّا تَعْبُدُوٓا۟ إِلَّآ إِيَّاهُ وَبِٱلْوَٰلِدَيْنِ إِحْسَٰنًا إِمَّا يَبْلُغَنَّ عِندَكَ ٱلْكِبَرَ أَحَدُهُمَآ أَوْ كِلَاهُمَا فَلَا تَقُل لَّهُمَآ أُفٍّ وَلَا تَنْهَرْهُمَا وَقُل لَّهُمَا قَوْلًا كَرِيمًا
Quran glossary · draft
كِلَا · كِلْتَا
both
Both members of a pair considered together.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: كلو
Lemmas: كلا · كلتا
Forms: كِلَا · كِلْتَا
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
كِلْتَا ٱلْجَنَّتَيْنِ ءَاتَتْ أُكُلَهَا وَلَمْ تَظْلِم مِّنْهُ شَيْـًٔا وَفَجَّرْنَا خِلَٰلَهُمَا نَهَرًا
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered both occurrences. The masculine dual quantifier at 17:23 includes both parents as the possible reach of old age, while the feminine form at 18:33 includes both gardens as fully yielding produce. Grammatical gender follows the paired referent and does not change the exhaustive two-member core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.