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Arabic root

ج-و-ب

Jim-Waw-Ba

2 words from this root family

About this root

Jim-Waw-Ba (ج-و-ب) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: ajāba (to answer / to reply), istajwaba (to interrogate / to question).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 43 times in 41 verses, across 23 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:186.

Themes: Verbs, Communication, Media Politics

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
أَجَابَ
ajāba
to answer / to replyverb, A1Action Verbs - Movement & Travel
اِسْتَجْوَبَ
istajwaba
to interrogate / to questionverb, B2Political Movements

In the Quran

وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِى عَنِّى فَإِنِّى قَرِيبٌ ۖ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ ٱلدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ ۖ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لِى وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِى لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ

And when My servants question thee concerning Me, then surely I am nigh. I answer the prayer of the suppliant when he crieth unto Me. So let them hear My call and let them trust in Me, in order that they may be led aright.

Quran 2:186
ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْتَجَابُوا۟ لِلَّهِ وَٱلرَّسُولِ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَآ أَصَابَهُمُ ٱلْقَرْحُ ۚ لِلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا۟ مِنْهُمْ وَٱتَّقَوْا۟ أَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ

As for those who heard the call of Allah and His messenger after the harm befell them (in the fight); for such of them as do right and ward off (evil), there is great reward.

Quran 3:172
وَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوْمِهِۦٓ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوٓا۟ أَخْرِجُوهُم مِّن قَرْيَتِكُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ

And the answer of his people was only that they said (one to another): Turn them out of your township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure.

Quran 7:82

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

A1verb
أَجَابَ
ajāba

to answer / to reply

Example
أجابَ الطالبُ عن السؤالِ
ajāba aṭ-ṭālibu ʿan as-suʾāli
The student answered the question
Grammar

Form IV verb (أَفْعَلَ). Past: ajāba, Present: yujību. Takes 'an (عن) for the thing answered.

B2verb
اِسْتَجْوَبَ
istajwaba

to interrogate / to question

Example
اِستَجوَبَ البَرلَمانُ الوَزيرَ حَولَ الفَضيحَة.
istajwaba l-barlamānu l-wazīra ḥawla l-faḍīḥa.
The parliament interrogated the minister about the scandal.

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