ر-ب-ع
Ra-Ba-Ayn
8 words from this root family
About this root
Ra-Ba-Ayn (ر-ب-ع) has 8 words in the Fahm dictionary: arbaʿa (four), arbaʿūn (forty), ar-rābiʿ (fourth), al-arbiʿāʾ (Wednesday), and 4 more.
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 22 times in 21 verses, across 11 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:51. The form أَرْبَعَة (four) accounts for 9 of them.
Themes: Numbers, Basics, Numbers Tens, Numbers Ordinals, Time, Calendar, Numbers Practical, Nature Weather
Words from this root
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
أَرْبَعَة arbaʿa | four | numeral, A1 | 9× | Numbers 0-9 |
أَرْبَعُون arbaʿūn | forty | numeral, A1 | Numbers 10-1000 | |
الرَّابِع ar-rābiʿ | fourth | adjective, A1 | Days of the Week | |
الْأَرْبِعَاء al-arbiʿāʾ | Wednesday | noun, A1 | Days of the Week | |
رَبِيع الْأَوَّل rabīʿ al-awwal | Rabi al-Awwal (3rd month) | noun, A1 | Months & Seasons | |
رَبِيع الثَّانِي rabīʿ ath-thānī | Rabi ath-Thani (4th month) | noun, A1 | Months & Seasons | |
رُبْع rubʿ | quarter | noun, A1 | Telling Time | |
رَبِيع rabīʿ | spring (season) | noun, B1 | Natural Elements |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
In the Quran
وَإِذْ وَٰعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰٓ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ ٱلْعِجْلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَأَنتُمْ ظَـٰلِمُونَAnd when We did appoint for Moses forty nights (of solitude), and then ye chose the calf, when he had gone from you, and were wrong-doers.
لِّلَّذِينَ يُؤْلُونَ مِن نِّسَآئِهِمْ تَرَبُّصُ أَرْبَعَةِ أَشْهُرٍ ۖ فَإِن فَآءُو فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌThose who forswear their wives must wait four months; then, if they change their mind, lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تُقْسِطُوا۟ فِى ٱلْيَتَـٰمَىٰ فَٱنكِحُوا۟ مَا طَابَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ مَثْنَىٰ وَثُلَـٰثَ وَرُبَـٰعَ ۖ فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا۟ فَوَٰحِدَةً أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَـٰنُكُمْ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ أَدْنَىٰٓ أَلَّا تَعُولُوا۟And if ye fear that ye will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry of the women, who seem good to you, two or three or four; and if ye fear that ye cannot do justice (to so many) then one (only) or (the captives) that your right hands possess. Thus it is more likely that ye will not do injustice.
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
forty
fourth
Wednesday
Named after the number four (arba'a) as it is the fourth day
Rabi al-Awwal (3rd month)
Means 'the first spring'
Rabi ath-Thani (4th month)
Means 'the second spring'