يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِى لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًا
Quran glossary · draft
فُلَان unnamed-person placeholder
so-and-so
So-and-so is a placeholder used for a person left unnamed in the statement.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: فلن
Lemmas: فلان
Forms: فُلَانًا
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
intimate friend
25:28
يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِى لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًا
Alternative: I wish I had not taken an intimate friend as an intimate friend
Research rendering: I wish I had not taken so-and-so as an intimate friend
The alternative collapses the unnamed person object into the separate role assigned by خَلِيلًا.