هلك

From Proto-Semitic *halak-, forming the root ه ل ك (h-l-k). Cognate with Hebrew הָלַךְ (“to go; to go on; to go away”).

هَلَكَ • (halaka) I (non-past يَهْلِكُ (yahliku) or يَهْلَكُ (yahlaku), verbal noun هُلْك (hulk) or هَلَاك (halāk) or هُلُوك (hulūk) or تُهْلُوك (tuhlūk) or تَهْلَكَة (tahlaka) or تَهْلِكَة (tahlika) or تَهْلُكَة (tahluka) or مَهْلِكَة (mahlika)) (intransitive)

1. to perish, to die, to be destroyed, to expire, to succumb

   Synonyms: مَاتَ (māta), نَفَقَ (nafaqa), فَنِيَ (faniya)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:176:

     إِنِ ٱمْرُؤٌ هَلَكَ لَيْسَ لَهُ وَلَدٌ وَلَهُ أُخْتٌ فَلَهَا نِصْفُ مَا تَرَكَ

     ʔini mruʔun halaka laysa lahu waladun walahu ʔuḵtun falahā niṣfu mā taraka

     If a man deceases and he has no offspring and has a sister, she shall have half of what he has left.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 8:42:

     إِذْ أَنتُم بِالْعُدْوَةِ الدُّنْيَا وَهُم بِالْعُدْوَةِ الْقُصْوَىٰ وَالرَّكْبُ أَسْفَلَ مِنكُمْ ۚ وَلَوْ تَوَاعَدتُّمْ لَاخْتَلَفْتُمْ فِي الْمِيعَادِ ۙ وَلَٰكِن لِّيَقْضِيَ اللَّهُ أَمْرًا كَانَ مَفْعُولًا لِّيَهْلِكَ مَنْ هَلَكَ عَن بَيِّنَةٍ وَيَحْيَىٰ مَنْ حَيَّ عَن بَيِّنَةٍ ۗ وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَسَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ

     And you were in the lower course and they were in the farther course, with the riders below you. If you had appointed it, you would have differed on its appointment! But it was so, that Allah may carry out a thing that was to be done: that whoever perishes may perish with the truth and that whoever lives may live with the truth. Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 40:34:

     وَلَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ يُوسُفُ مِن قَبْلُ بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ فَمَا زِلْتُمْ فِي شَكٍّ مِّمَّا جَاءَكُم بِهِ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا هَلَكَ قُلْتُمْ لَن يَبْعَثَ اللّٰهُ مِن بَعْدِهِ رَسُولًا

     walaqad jāʔakum yūsufu min qablu bi-l-bayyināti famā ziltum fī šakkin mimmā jāʔakum bihi ḥattā ʔiḏā halaka qultum lan yabʕaṯa llāhu min baʕdihi rasūlan

     And Joseph came to you before with evident truths, and you were still in doubt of what he came to you with till he expired, and then you said, "There will be no other prophet from Allah after him."

2. to go away (+عَنْ (ʕan))
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:29:

     هَلَكَ عَنِّي سُلْطَانِيَهْ

     halaka ʕannī sulṭāniyah

     Gone from me is my authority.

هَلَكَ • (halaka) I (non-past يَهْلِكُ (yahliku), verbal noun هَلْك (halk)) (transitive)

1. to ruin, to annihilate, to destroy

هَلَكَ • (halaka) I (non-past يَهْلِكُ (yahliku), verbal noun هَلَاك (halāk)) (intransitive)

1. to be avaricious, to be greedy

هَلِكَ • (halika) I (non-past يَهْلَكُ (yahlaku), verbal noun هَلَك (halak)) (intransitive)

1. to perish
   1. to perish physically, to die
   2. to perish spiritually, to be doomed, to be eternally damned

هُلْك • (hulk) m

1. verbal noun of هَلَكَ (halaka) (form I)

هَلْك • (halk) m

1. verbal noun of هَلَكَ (halaka) (form I)

هَلَك • (halak) m

1. verbal noun of هَلِكَ (halika) (form I)