bread
Bread is a staple of every Arab meal and holds cultural significance
Kha-Ba-Zay
1 word from this root family
Kha-Ba-Zay (خ-ب-ز) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: khubz (bread).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 12:36. The form خُبْز (bread) accounts for all of them.
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
خُبْز khubz | bread | noun, A1 | 1× | Food Basics - Bread, Rice & Staples |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
وَدَخَلَ مَعَهُ ٱلسِّجْنَ فَتَيَانِ ۖ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَآ إِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰنِىٓ أَعْصِرُ خَمْرًا ۖ وَقَالَ ٱلْـَٔاخَرُ إِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰنِىٓ أَحْمِلُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِى خُبْزًا تَأْكُلُ ٱلطَّيْرُ مِنْهُ ۖ نَبِّئْنَا بِتَأْوِيلِهِۦٓ ۖ إِنَّا نَرَىٰكَ مِنَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَAnd two young men went to prison with him. One of them said: I dreamed that I was pressing wine. The other said: I dreamed that I was carrying upon my head bread whereof the birds were eating. Announce unto us the interpretation, for we see thee of those good (at interpretation).
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).
Bread is a staple of every Arab meal and holds cultural significance