Arabic root

ل-ب-ن

Lam-Ba-Nun

1 word from this root family

About this root

Lam-Ba-Nun (ل-ب-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: laban (yogurt / buttermilk).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 16:66. The form لَبَن (yogurt / buttermilk) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Food, Drinks

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
لَبَن laban	yogurt / buttermilk	noun, A1	2×	Food Basics - Bread, Rice & Staples

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَنْعَـٰمِ لَعِبْرَةً ۖ نُّسْقِيكُم مِّمَّا فِى بُطُونِهِۦ مِنۢ بَيْنِ فَرْثٍ وَدَمٍ لَّبَنًا خَالِصًا سَآئِغًا لِّلشَّـٰرِبِينَ

And lo! in the cattle there is a lesson for you. We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies, from betwixt the refuse and the blood, pure milk palatable to the drinkers.

Quran 16:66

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).