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Arabic root

ه-ر-ب

Heh-Ra-Ba

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About this root

Heh-Ra-Ba (ه-ر-ب) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: tahrīb (smuggling).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 72:12.

Themes: Law Economics

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
تَهْرِيب
tahrīb
smugglingnoun, B2Economic Policy

In the Quran

وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن نُّعْجِزَ ٱللَّهَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَن نُّعْجِزَهُۥ هَرَبًا

And we know that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth, nor can we escape by flight.

Quran 72:12

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).

Word cards with examples

B2noun
تَهْرِيب
tahrīb

smuggling

Example
كافَحَتِ السُّلُطاتُ عَمَلِيّاتِ التَّهريب.
kāfaḥati s-suluṭātu ʿamaliyyāti t-tahrīb.
The authorities combated smuggling operations.

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