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Arabic root

ت-ر-ب

Ta-Ra-Ba

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About this root

Ta-Ra-Ba (ت-ر-ب) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: turāb (soil / dirt).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 22 times in 22 verses, across 18 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:264. The form تُرَاب (soil / dirt) accounts for 17 of them.

Themes: Nature Weather

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
تُرَاب
turāb
soil / dirtnoun, B117×Natural Elements

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

In the Quran

إِنَّ مَثَلَ عِيسَىٰ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ كَمَثَلِ ءَادَمَ ۖ خَلَقَهُۥ مِن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ

Lo! the likeness of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, then He said unto him: Be! and he is.

Quran 3:59
۞ وَعِندَهُمْ قَـٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ أَتْرَابٌ

And with them are those of modest gaze, companions.

Quran 38:52
يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ

That issued from between the loins and ribs.

Quran 86:7

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

B1noun
تُرَاب
turāb

soil / dirt

Example
التُّرابُ رَطبٌ بَعدَ المَطَر.
at-turābu raṭbun baʿda l-maṭar.
The soil is moist after the rain.

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