Quran glossary · draft

مُعَلَّقَة

unresolved suspension

Left attached to a relationship while denied a settled relational status.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: علق

Lemmas: معلقة

Forms: مُعَلَّقَةِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

4:129

وَلَن تَسْتَطِيعُوٓا۟ أَن تَعْدِلُوا۟ بَيْنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ وَلَوْ حَرَصْتُمْ فَلَا تَمِيلُوا۟ كُلَّ ٱلْمَيْلِ فَتَذَرُوهَا كَٱلْمُعَلَّقَةِ وَإِن تُصْلِحُوا۟ وَتَتَّقُوا۟ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا

Why this meaning was chosen

All seven occurrences were compared. The passive participle at 4:129 profiles a wife left relationally suspended. Six عَلَقَة and عَلَق segments name the developmental stage between the emitted drop and the chewed-form stage or subsequent formation. The suspension segment supplies the attachment core, while the developmental passages securely fix sequence but do not independently describe material, shape, or exact mode of attachment. The developmental rendering therefore remains an explicit review question. No aligned reading divergence is present.