Arabic root

ك-و-ب

Kaf-Waw-Ba

1 word from this root family

About this root

Kaf-Waw-Ba (ك-و-ب) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: kūb (glass / cup).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 43:71.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
كُوب kūb	glass / cup	noun, A1	At the Restaurant - Part 1

In the Quran

يُطَافُ عَلَيْهِم بِصِحَافٍ مِّن ذَهَبٍ وَأَكْوَابٍ ۖ وَفِيهَا مَا تَشْتَهِيهِ ٱلْأَنفُسُ وَتَلَذُّ ٱلْأَعْيُنُ ۖ وَأَنتُمْ فِيهَا خَـٰلِدُونَ

Therein are brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that souls desire and eyes find sweet. And ye are immortal therein.

Quran 43:71

بِأَكْوَابٍ وَأَبَارِيقَ وَكَأْسٍ مِّن مَّعِينٍ

With bowls and ewers and a cup from a pure spring

Quran 56:18

وَيُطَافُ عَلَيْهِم بِـَٔانِيَةٍ مِّن فِضَّةٍ وَأَكْوَابٍ كَانَتْ قَوَارِيرَا۠

Goblets of silver are brought round for them, and beakers (as) of glass

Quran 76:15

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).