student (male)
Feminine: ṭāliba (طَالِبَةٌ). Plural: ṭullāb (طُلَّابٌ). Root ṭ-l-b means 'to seek/request'.
Tah-Lam-Ba
3 words from this root family
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
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
طَالِبٌ ṭālibun | student (male) | noun, A1 | 1× | Nature, People & The World Around Us |
طَلَب ṭalab | order / request | noun, A1 | 1× | At the Restaurant - Part 2 |
طَالِبَة ṭāliba | student (female) | noun, A1 | Social Relationships |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
أَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَآؤُهَا غَوْرًا فَلَن تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُۥ طَلَبًاOr some morning the water thereof will be lost in the earth so that thou canst not make search for it.
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 وَٱلْمَطْلُوبُO 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!
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).
Feminine: ṭāliba (طَالِبَةٌ). Plural: ṭullāb (طُلَّابٌ). Root ṭ-l-b means 'to seek/request'.