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Arabic root

خ-ط-ب

Kha-Tah-Ba

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About this root

Kha-Tah-Ba (خ-ط-ب) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: khaṭīb (fiance).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 12 times in 12 verses, across 11 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:235.

Themes: Relationships, Basics

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
خَطيب
khaṭīb
fiancenoun, A1Family & Relationships - Final Words

In the Quran

وَٱصْنَعِ ٱلْفُلْكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا وَوَحْيِنَا وَلَا تُخَـٰطِبْنِى فِى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوٓا۟ ۚ إِنَّهُم مُّغْرَقُونَ

Build the ship under Our eyes and by Our inspiration, and speak not unto Me on behalf of those who do wrong. Lo! they will be drowned.

Quran 11:37
قَالَ مَا خَطْبُكُنَّ إِذْ رَٰوَدتُّنَّ يُوسُفَ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ ۚ قُلْنَ حَـٰشَ لِلَّهِ مَا عَلِمْنَا عَلَيْهِ مِن سُوٓءٍ ۚ قَالَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْـَٔـٰنَ حَصْحَصَ ٱلْحَقُّ أَنَا۠ رَٰوَدتُّهُۥ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ وَإِنَّهُۥ لَمِنَ ٱلصَّـٰدِقِينَ

He (the king) (then sent for those women and) said: What happened when ye asked an evil act of Joseph? They answered: Allah Blameless! We know no evil of him. Said the wife of the ruler: Now the truth is out. I asked of him an evil act, and he is surely of the truthful.

Quran 12:51
وَشَدَدْنَا مُلْكَهُۥ وَءَاتَيْنَـٰهُ ٱلْحِكْمَةَ وَفَصْلَ ٱلْخِطَابِ

We made his kingdom strong and gave him wisdom and decisive speech.

Quran 38:20

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

A1noun
خَطيب
khaṭīb

fiance

Example
خَطيبي يَعمَلُ مُهَندِساً
khaṭībī yaʿmalu muhandisan
My fiance works as an engineer
Grammar

Feminine: خَطيبَة (khaṭība) meaning 'fiancee'.

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