شبه

Root entry · 23 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns resemblance, likeness, and similarity. It extends to concepts of confusion, doubt, and things that are alike or indistinguishable. It also encompasses metaphorical comparisons and specific instances of things that look alike.

Derived headwords

الشَّبَهُnoun

1.
likenessboth
The state or quality of being similar or resembling something else.
2.
exampleboth
A model or pattern that is similar to another.
3.
copper alloyclassical
A type of copper that is yellowish, resembling gold.

الشِّبْهُnoun

1.
likenessboth
The state or quality of being similar or resembling something else.
2.
exampleboth
A model or pattern that is similar to another.
3.
copper alloyclassical
A type of copper that is yellowish, resembling gold.

الشَّبِيهُnoun

1.
likenessboth
The state or quality of being similar or resembling something else.
2.
exampleboth
A model or pattern that is similar to another.

أَشْبَهَverb

1.
to resembleboth
To be like or similar to someone or something.
2.
to be weakclassical
To be feeble or lacking strength, often used metaphorically.

من أشبه أباه فما ظلم — He who resembles his father has not wronged.

أصبح فيه شبه من أمه — He has acquired a resemblance to his mother.

أَشْبَاهُnoun

1.
likenessesboth
Plural of likeness; things that are similar or resemble each other.
2.
examplesboth
Plural of example; models or patterns that are similar.

اشْتَبَهَverb

1.
to be confusedboth
To become unclear or difficult to distinguish.
2.
to resemble each otherboth
When two things become similar to one another.

اشتبه علي الأمر — The matter became unclear to me.

واشتبه علي وتشابه الشيئان واشتبها — And the two things became similar and resembled each other.

مُشْتَبِهًاadjective

1.
confusingboth
Causing confusion or difficulty in understanding.
2.
similarboth
Resembling or having a likeness to something else.

مُتَشَابِهَاتٌnoun

1.
ambiguous versesclassical
Verses in the Quran whose meaning is not immediately clear and requires interpretation.
2.
similar thingsboth
Things that resemble each other.

تَشَابُهٌnoun

1.
similarityboth
The state of being similar or alike.
2.
resemblanceboth
The quality of being like or similar to something else.

تَشَبُّهٌnoun

1.
imitationboth
The act of making something similar to something else.
2.
assimilationboth
The process of becoming similar to something.

تَشَبَّهَverb

1.
to imitateboth
To try to be like someone or something.
2.
to resembleboth
To look or be like someone or something.

تشبه فلان بكذا — So-and-so imitated such-and-such.

التَّشْبِيهُnoun

1.
simileboth
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
2.
metaphorboth
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
3.
likeningboth
The act of comparing one thing to another.

الشُّبْهَةُnoun

1.
doubtboth
A feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.
2.
ambiguityboth
The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
3.
suspicionboth
A feeling or belief that someone has done something wrong.

مُشْتَبِهَةٌadjective

1.
confusingboth
Causing confusion or difficulty in understanding.
2.
ambiguousboth
Open to more than one interpretation.

مُشَبَّهَةٌadjective

1.
confusingboth
Causing confusion or difficulty in understanding.
2.
ambiguousboth
Open to more than one interpretation.

مُشَابِهٌadjective

1.
similarboth
Resembling or having a likeness to something else.
2.
alikeboth
Having resemblance or similarity.

مُشَابِهٌnoun

1.
likenessboth
A thing that is similar to another.
2.
resemblanceboth
A similarity.

شِبْهُ العَمْدِnoun

1.
manslaughterclassical
An unintentional killing that occurs during the commission of an unlawful act, but not amounting to murder.

شَبَهٌnoun

1.
yellowish copperclassical
A type of copper that is yellowish, resembling gold.

مُصْفَرٌّadjective

1.
yellowishboth
Having a slightly yellow color.

الشَّبَاهُnoun

1.
seedclassical
A seed that is round and colored like the fenugreek seed, used in medicine.

الشَّبْهَانُnoun

1.
plantclassical
A type of thorny shrub resembling the acacia tree, or a plant similar to thamam.

الشَّبَهُnoun

1.
thorny shrubclassical
A thorny tree that resembles the acacia.

Parallel reading

الشبه والشبه والشبيه: المثل، والجمع أشباه.

Al-shabah, al-shibh, and al-shabih: the likeness, and the plural is ashbah.

وأشبه الشيء الشيء: ماثله.

And a thing resembled another thing: it was its likeness.

من أشبه أباه فما ظلم.

He who resembles his father has not wronged.

وأشبهت فلانا وشابهته واشتبه علي وتشابه الشيئان واشتبها: أشبه كل واحد منهما صاحبه.

And I resembled you and you resembled me, and it became confused to me, and the two things became similar and resembled each other: each one of them resembled its companion.

وفي التنزيل: مشتبها وغير متشابه.

And in the Quran: resembling and not resembling.

وشبهه إياه وشبهه به مثله.

And he made it resemble it, and he made it like it.

والمشتبهات من الأمور: المشكلات.

And the confusing matters are the problematic ones.

والمتشابهات: المتماثلات.

And the متشابهات are the similar ones.

وإذا أدبرت وانقضت بان أمرها، فعلم من دخل فيها أنه كان على الخطأ.

And when it turned away and ended, its matter became clear, and whoever entered into it knew that they were mistaken.

والشبهة: الالتباس.

And al-shubhah: confusion.

وأمور مشتبهة ومشبهة: مشكلة يشبه بعضها بعضا.

And confusing and confused matters: problematic, some of them resembling others.

وشبه عليه: خلط عليه الأمر حتى اشتبه بغيره.

And it was made unclear to him: the matter was confused for him until it resembled something else.

وفيه مشابه من فلان أي أشباه، ولم يقولوا في واحدته مشبهة، وقد كان قياسه ذلك، لكنهم استغنوا بشبه عنه فهو من باب ملامح ومذاكير.

And in him are mushabah from so-and-so, meaning ashbah, and they did not say mushabbahah for its singular, although its measure would have been so, but they sufficed with shabah for it, so it is from the pattern of malamih and madhakir.

وفي حديث الديات: دية شبه العمد أثلاث.

And in the hadith of blood money: the blood money for shabah al-'amd is in three parts.

وأتوا به متشابها.

And they brought it resembling.

آمنوا بمتشابهه واعملوا بمحكمه.

Believe in its متشابه and act upon its محكم.

وفي فلان شبه من فلان، وهو شبهه وشبهه وشبيهه.

And in so-and-so is a likeness of so-and-so, and he is his shabah, shibh, and shabih.

وشبه الشيء إذا أشكل، وشبه إذا ساوى بين شيء وشيء.

And shabah a thing if it was confusing, and shabah if it equated one thing with another.

وشبهت علي يا فلان إذا خلط عليك.

And you confused me, O so-and-so, if the matter was confused for you.

واشتبه الأمر إذا اختلط، واشتبه علي الشيء.

And the matter became confused if it was mixed, and the thing became confused to me.

وجمع الشبهة شبه، وهو اسم من الاشتباه.

And the plural of al-shubhah is shabah, and it is a noun from al-ishtibah.

روي عن عمر، رضي الله عنه، أنه قال: اللين يشبه عليه.

It is narrated from Umar, may God be pleased with him, that he said: The wet nurse is resembled by the child.

فإن اللبن يشبه.

For the milk resembles.

والشبه والشبه: النحاس يصبغ فيصفر.

And al-shabah and al-shibh: copper that is dyed to become yellow.

سمي به لأنه إذا فعل ذلك به أشبه الذهب بلونه.

It was named so because when it was treated thus, it resembled gold in its color.

كوز شبه وشبه بمعنى.

A jug of shabah and shibh with the same meaning.

الشبه شجرة كثيرة الشوك تشبه السمرة وليست بها.

Al-shabah is a tree with many thorns that resembles the samrah, but is not it.

والمشبه: المصفر من النصي.

And al-mushabbah: the yellowish one of the nasy.

والشباه: حب على لون الحرف يشرب للدواء.

And al-shibah: a seed the color of fenugreek, drunk for medicine.

والشبهان: نبت يشبه الثمام، ويقال له الشهبان.

And al-shubhan: a plant that resembles al-thumam, and it is also called al-shahban.

وقيل الشبهان هو الثمام من الرياحين.

And it was said that al-shubhan is al-thumam from the fragrant plants.