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Arabic root

ط-ل-ب

Tah-Lam-Ba

3 words from this root family

About this root

Tah-Lam-Ba (ط-ل-ب) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: ṭālibun (student (male)), ṭalab (order / request), ṭāliba (student (female)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 3 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 7:54. The form طَالِبٌ (student (male)) accounts for 1 of them.

Themes: Nouns, Basics, Dining, Relationships, Work

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
طَالِبٌ
ṭālibun
student (male)noun, A11×Nature, People & The World Around Us
طَلَب
ṭalab
order / requestnoun, A11×At the Restaurant - Part 2
طَالِبَة
ṭāliba
student (female)noun, A1Social Relationships

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

In the Quran

أَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَآؤُهَا غَوْرًا فَلَن تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُۥ طَلَبًا

Or some morning the water thereof will be lost in the earth so that thou canst not make search for it.

Quran 18:41
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ضُرِبَ مَثَلٌ فَٱسْتَمِعُوا۟ لَهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ لَن يَخْلُقُوا۟ ذُبَابًا وَلَوِ ٱجْتَمَعُوا۟ لَهُۥ ۖ وَإِن يَسْلُبْهُمُ ٱلذُّبَابُ شَيْـًٔا لَّا يَسْتَنقِذُوهُ مِنْهُ ۚ ضَعُفَ ٱلطَّالِبُ وَٱلْمَطْلُوبُ

O mankind! A similitude is coined, so pay ye heed to it: Lo! those on whom ye call beside Allah will never create a fly though they combine together for the purpose. And if the fly took something from them, they could not rescue it from it. So weak are (both) the seeker and the sought!

Quran 22:73

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

A1noun
طَالِبٌ
ṭālibun

student (male)

Example
أَنَا طَالِبٌ فِي الْجَامِعَةِ.
anā ṭālibun fī al-jāmiʿati.
I am a student at the university.
Grammar

Feminine: ṭāliba (طَالِبَةٌ). Plural: ṭullāb (طُلَّابٌ). Root ṭ-l-b means 'to seek/request'.

A1noun
طَلَب
ṭalab

order / request

Example
أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَطْلُبَ الطَّعَامَ
urīdu an aṭluba aṭ-ṭaʿāma
I want to order the food
A1noun
طَالِبَة
ṭāliba

student (female)

Example
الطَّالِبَةُ تَقرَأُ كِتاباً
aṭ-ṭālibatu taqraʾu kitāban
The student is reading a book

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