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Arabic root

ق-ب-ح

Qaf-Ba-Ha

1 word from this root family

About this root

Qaf-Ba-Ha (ق-ب-ح) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: qabīḥ (ugly).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 28:42.

Themes: Adjectives, Quality

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
قَبيح
qabīḥ
uglyadjective, A1Adjectives - Size & Age

In the Quran

وَأَتْبَعْنَـٰهُمْ فِى هَـٰذِهِ ٱلدُّنْيَا لَعْنَةً ۖ وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ هُم مِّنَ ٱلْمَقْبُوحِينَ

And We made a curse to follow them in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be among the hateful.

Quran 28:42

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

A1adjective
قَبيح
qabīḥ

ugly

Example
هٰذا شَيءٌ قَبيح
hādhā shayʾun qabīḥ
This is an ugly thing
Grammar

Feminine form: qabīḥa (قَبيحة). Opposite of jamīl (جَميل).

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