Ba-Ha-Tha
2 words from this root family
Ba-Ha-Tha (ب-ح-ث) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: baḥatha (to search / to research), baḥth (research / study).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 5:31.
Themes: Verbs, Actions, Academic Formal
| Word | Meaning | Type | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|
بَحَثَ baḥatha | to search / to research | verb, A1 | Action Verbs - Social Interactions |
بَحْث baḥth | research / study | noun, B2 | Research & Analysis |
فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابًا يَبْحَثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيْفَ يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَةَ أَخِيهِ ۚ قَالَ يَـٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ هَـٰذَا ٱلْغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِىَ سَوْءَةَ أَخِى ۖ فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّـٰدِمِينَThen Allah sent a raven scratching up the ground, to show him how to hide his brother's naked corpse. He said: Woe unto me! Am I not able to be as this raven and so hide my brother's naked corpse? And he became repentant.
Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).
Form I verb. Past: baḥatha, Present: yabḥathu. Takes 'an (عن) for what is searched.