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فبء

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root describes a sudden, brief, and intense downpour of rain that quickly passes and subsides. It conveys the idea of something that arrives swiftly and then disappears.

Derived headwords

الفبأةnoun
  1. 1.
    sudden downpourclassical

    A quick and intense rain shower that arrives suddenly and then dissipates.

فَبَأَverb
  1. 1.
    to rain suddenlyclassical

    To rain with a sudden, brief, and intense shower.

Parallel reading

الفبأة، المطرة السريعة
Al-fab'ah, the quick rain.
تأتي ساعة ثم تنقشع
It comes for an hour then clears away.
تسكن
it subsides.
كذا في العباب
Thus in Al-'Ubab.