to play
Form I verb. Past: la'iba, Present: yal'abu.
Lam-Ayn-Ba
3 words from this root family
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
| Word | Meaning | Type | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|
لَعِبَ laʿiba | to play | verb, A1 | Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling |
لُعْبة luʿba | game | noun, A2 | Sports & Exercise |
مَلْعَب malʿab | stadium / playground | noun, A2 | Music & Art |
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَتَّخِذُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ دِينَكُمْ هُزُوًا وَلَعِبًا مِّنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَٱلْكُفَّارَ أَوْلِيَآءَ ۚ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَO 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.
أَوَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا ضُحًى وَهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَOr are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play?
وَمَا خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَـٰعِبِينَWe created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play.
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).
Form I verb. Past: la'iba, Present: yal'abu.