Arabic root

ط-ب-ق

Tah-Ba-Qaf

2 words from this root family

About this root

Tah-Ba-Qaf (ط-ب-ق) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: ṭābiq (floor / story), taṭbīq (application / app).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 3 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 67:3.

Themes: Travel, Places, Technology Media

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
طابِق ṭābiq	floor / story	noun, A2	Travel Plans & Booking
تَطْبِيق taṭbīq	application / app	noun, B1	Digital World

In the Quran

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَـٰوَٰتٍ طِبَاقًا ۖ مَّا تَرَىٰ فِى خَلْقِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ مِن تَفَـٰوُتٍ ۖ فَٱرْجِعِ ٱلْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرَىٰ مِن فُطُورٍ

Who hath created seven heavens in harmony. Thou (Muhammad) canst see no fault in the Beneficent One's creation; then look again: Canst thou see any rifts?

Quran 67:3

أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ سَبْعَ سَمَـٰوَٰتٍ طِبَاقًا

See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony,

Quran 71:15

لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍ

That ye shall journey on from plane to plane.

Quran 84:19

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).