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ءبب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

This root primarily concerns vegetation, specifically pasture and fodder for animals. It encompasses all types of plants that grow from the earth and are consumed by livestock, distinguishing it from fruits eaten by humans.

Derived headwords

الأبnoun
  1. 1.
    pastureboth

    All the herbage and vegetation that grazing animals consume.

  2. 2.
    fodderclassical

    What livestock eat from the plants growing on the earth's surface.

  3. 3.
    vegetationclassical

    Everything that the earth brings forth in terms of plants.

Parallel reading

الأب: الكلأ، وعبر بعضهم «1» عنه بأنه المرعى.
Al-Ab: the herbage, and some interpreted it as pasture.
وقال الزجاج: الأب جميع الكلإ الذي تعتلفه الماشية.
And Al-Zajjaj said: Al-Ab is all the herbage that the livestock graze upon.
وفي التنزيل العزيز: وفاكهة وأبا .
And in the Noble Qur'an: 'and fruits and pasture'.
قال أبو حنيفة: سمى الله تعالى المرعى كله أبا.
Abu Hanifa said: Allah the Almighty named all pasture as Ab.
قال الفراء: الأب ما يأكله الأنعام.
Al-Farra' said: Al-Ab is what the livestock eat.
وقال مجاهد: الفاكهة ما أكله الناس، والأب ما أكلت الأنعام، فالأب من المرعى للدواب كالفاكهة للإنسان.
And Mujahid said: Fruits are what people eat, and Al-Ab is what livestock eat; thus, Al-Ab from pasture for beasts is like fruits for humans.
ولنا الأب به والمكرع
And we have the pasture through it and the watering place.
قال ثعلب: الأب كل ما أخرجت الأرض من النبات.
Thaalab said: Al-Ab is everything that the earth brings forth in terms of plants.
وقال عطاء: كل شيء ينبت على وجه الأرض فهو الأب.
And Atta said: Everything that grows on the face of the earth is Al-Ab.