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Arabic root

ل-ع-ب

Lam-Ayn-Ba

3 words from this root family

About this root

Lam-Ayn-Ba (ل-ع-ب) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: laʿiba (to play), luʿba (game), malʿab (stadium / playground).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 20 times in 20 verses, across 13 of the 114 suras. The first is in 5:57.

Themes: Verbs, Actions, Hobbies, Entertainment, Sports, Places

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
لَعِبَ
laʿiba
to playverb, A1Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling
لُعْبة
luʿba
gamenoun, A2Sports & Exercise
مَلْعَب
malʿab
stadium / playgroundnoun, A2Music & Art

In the Quran

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَتَّخِذُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ دِينَكُمْ هُزُوًا وَلَعِبًا مِّنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَٱلْكُفَّارَ أَوْلِيَآءَ ۚ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

O Ye who believe! Choose not for guardians such of those who received the Scripture before you, and of the disbelievers, as make a jest and sport of your religion. But keep your duty to Allah if ye are true believers.

Quran 5:57
أَوَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا ضُحًى وَهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ

Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play?

Quran 7:98
وَمَا خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَـٰعِبِينَ

We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play.

Quran 21:16

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
لَعِبَ
laʿiba

to play

Example
لعبَ الأطفالُ في الحديقةِ
laʿiba al-aṭfālu fī al-ḥadīqati
The children played in the garden
Grammar

Form I verb. Past: la'iba, Present: yal'abu.

A2noun
لُعْبة
luʿba

game

Example
هذِهِ اللُعْبة مُمْتِعة جِدًّا.
hadhihi al-luʿba mumtiʿa jiddan.
This game is very fun.
A2noun
مَلْعَب
malʿab

stadium / playground

Example
المَلْعَب مُمْتَلِئ بِالمُشَجِّعين.
al-malʿab mumtaliʾ bil-mushajjiʿīn.
The stadium is full of fans.

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