Ra-Ba-Waw
1 word from this root family
Ra-Ba-Waw (ر-ب-و) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ribā (usury / interest).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 20 times in 15 verses, across 12 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:265. The form رِبَا (usury / interest) accounts for 7 of them.
Themes: Quranic
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
رِبَا ribā | usury / interest | noun, B2 | 7× | Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
يَمْحَقُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلرِّبَوٰا۟ وَيُرْبِى ٱلصَّدَقَـٰتِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ كَفَّارٍ أَثِيمٍAllah hath blighted usury and made almsgiving fruitful. Allah loveth not the impious and guilty.
وَٱخْفِضْ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ ٱلذُّلِّ مِنَ ٱلرَّحْمَةِ وَقُل رَّبِّ ٱرْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِى صَغِيرًاAnd lower unto them the wing of submission through mercy, and say: My Lord! Have mercy on them both as they did care for me when I was little.
وَجَعَلْنَا ٱبْنَ مَرْيَمَ وَأُمَّهُۥٓ ءَايَةً وَءَاوَيْنَـٰهُمَآ إِلَىٰ رَبْوَةٍ ذَاتِ قَرَارٍ وَمَعِينٍAnd We made the son of Mary and his mother a portent, and We gave them refuge on a height, a place of flocks and watersprings.
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).
Masculine noun (alif maqṣūra). From رَبَا (to grow/increase). Literally means 'excess/growth' - refers to unjust financial gain through lending.
The prohibition of ribā is one of the most emphatic in the Quran - it forms the basis of Islamic banking and finance.