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ترب

Root entry · 27 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to earth, soil, dust, and the ground. It extends to concepts of poverty, destitution, and being covered or affected by dust. It also encompasses notions of equality, peers, and age-mates, as well as physical descriptions of the chest and specific plants.

Derived headwords

التُّرَابnoun
  1. 1.
    dust, soil, earthboth

    The fine particles of earth or other matter; the ground or surface of the earth.

التُّرْبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    soil, earthboth

    The ground or surface of the earth, often referring to its quality or composition.

  2. 2.
    grave, tombclassical

    A person's resting place; their grave or tomb.

  3. 3.
    fingertip, digitclassical

    The tip of a finger or toe.

  4. 4.
    plant, shrubclassical

    A type of plant or shrub, often described as green and eaten by camels.

التُّرْبَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    earth, groundclassical

    The earth or ground itself, sometimes used in contrast to the sky.

  2. 2.
    plant, shrubclassical

    A plant or shrub, similar to التربة.

التِّيْرَبnoun
  1. 1.
    dust, soilclassical

    A variant term for dust or soil.

التِّيْرَابnoun
  1. 1.
    dust, soilclassical

    A variant term for dust or soil.

التَّوْرَبnoun
  1. 1.
    dust, soilclassical

    A variant term for dust or soil.

التَّوْرَابnoun
  1. 1.
    dust, soilclassical

    A variant term for dust or soil.

التَّرِيبnoun
  1. 1.
    dust, soilclassical

    A variant term for dust or soil.

التَّرِيبnoun
  1. 1.
    chest bonesclassical

    The bones of the chest, specifically the collarbones or the area around them.

أَتْرِبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    soils, earthsboth

    Plural of تربة, referring to different types or patches of soil.

تَرِبَverb
  1. 1.
    to be dustyclassical

    To have much dust; to be covered in dust.

  2. 2.
    to be poor, destituteclassical

    To become poor or destitute, to the point of being associated with the dust.

  3. 3.
    to stick to dustclassical

    To adhere to the dust, implying poverty or destitution.

تَرَبٌnoun
  1. 1.
    dustinessclassical

    The state or condition of being dusty.

  2. 2.
    poverty, destitutionclassical

    The state of being poor or destitute.

مُتَرِّبadjective
  1. 1.
    dustyclassical

    Covered with dust.

  2. 2.
    poor, destituteclassical

    Poor or destitute, associated with dust.

مُتَرَّبadjective
  1. 1.
    rich, wealthyclassical

    Rich or wealthy, having abundant possessions, possibly likened to dust in quantity.

أَتْرَبَverb
  1. 1.
    to become richclassical

    To become wealthy or rich, to have abundant possessions.

  2. 2.
    to make richclassical

    To make someone rich or wealthy.

  3. 3.
    to put dust onclassical

    To place dust upon something.

  4. 4.
    to own a slaveclassical

    To own a slave who has been owned three times (specific context).

مَتْرَبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    poverty, destitutionboth

    The state of being poor, needy, or destitute.

تَرِبَتْ يَدَاهُphrase
  1. 1.
    may your hands be dustyclassical

    An expression of misfortune or poverty, literally 'may his hands be covered in dust'.

  2. 2.
    may you not gain goodclassical

    An expression meaning 'may you not achieve anything good' or 'may you fail'.

تَتَرَّبَverb
  1. 1.
    to be covered in dustclassical

    To become covered or smeared with dust.

  2. 2.
    to stick to dustclassical

    To adhere to the dust, implying poverty.

تَرِبُوتadjective
  1. 1.
    docile, tameclassical

    Describing a camel or other animal that is docile, tame, and easily led.

التَّرَائِبnoun
  1. 1.
    collarbones, chest bonesboth

    The bones of the upper chest, including the collarbones and the area between them.

تَرِيبnoun
  1. 1.
    chest boneclassical

    A single bone of the chest, part of the ترائب.

تَرِيبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    chest boneclassical

    A single bone of the chest, part of the ترائب.

التُّرْبnoun
  1. 1.
    peer, age-mateboth

    A person of the same age or status; a peer or contemporary.

  2. 2.
    twin, born togetherclassical

    Someone born at the same time or from the same birth.

أَتْرَابnoun
  1. 1.
    peers, age-matesboth

    Plural of ترب, referring to people of the same age or status.

تُؤَارَبُهَاverb
  1. 1.
    to become its peerclassical

    To become its peer or companion.

تَرِبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    weakness, feeblenessclassical

    Weakness or feebleness.

تُرْبَةname
  1. 1.
    name of a valleyclassical

    A valley located near Mecca.

Parallel reading

والترب والتراب والتربة بالضم في الثلاثة
And al-turb, al-turāb, and al-turbah are all with dammah in the three.
يقال: أرض طيبة التربة
It is said: 'An earth with good soil quality'.
خلق الله التربة يوم السبت
Allah created the earth on Saturday.
وتربة الإنسان: رمسه
And the التربة of a person is their grave.
وتربة الأرض: ظاهرها
And the التربة of the earth is its surface.
الترباء: نفس التراب
Al-turbā': the dust itself.
ما بين الجرباء والترباء، أي السماء والأرض
What is between al-jarbā' and al-turbā', meaning the sky and the earth.
ومكان ترب، وثرى ترب: كثير التراب
And a place ترب, and a land ترب: having much dust.
وريح تربة: تسوق التراب
And a wind تربah: that drives dust.
وترب الرجل: صار في يده التراب
And the man ترب: his hand became dusty.
ترب الرجل: خسر وافتقر فلزق بالتراب
The man ترب: he lost and became poor, sticking to the dust.
مسكينا ذا متربة
A needy one, possessing destitution.
تربت يداك
May your hands be dusty.
تربت جبينه
May his forehead be dusty.
أترب الرجل إذا استغنى وكثر ماله
The man أترب if he became rich and his wealth increased.
وتربه: جعل عليه التراب
And he تربه: he placed dust upon it.
فتترب أي تلطخ بالتراب
So he تترب, meaning he was smeared with dust.
فصرعنه تحت التراب فجنبه متترب
So we threw him down under the dust, and his side was covered in dust.
جمل تربوت، وناقة تربوت: ذلول
A camel تربوت, and a she-camel تربوت: docile.
التربة: الأنملة وجمعها: تربات: الأنامل
Al-turbah: the fingertip, and its plural: turbāt: the fingertips.
وهي أي النبت أو الشجرة الترباء، والتربة، محركة
And it, meaning the plant or tree, is al-turbā', and al-turbah, with harakah.
الترائب: عظام الصدر أو ما ولي الترقوتين منه
Al-tarā'ib: the bones of the chest or what adjoins the collarbones from it.
واحدها: تريب كأمير
Its singular: tarīb like amīr.
الترب بالكسر: اللدة وهما مترادفان
Al-turb, with kasr: the twin, and they are synonyms.
وهما تربان، وهم وهن أتراب
And they are two peers, and they are peers (masculine and feminine).
وعندهم قاصرات الطرف أتراب
And with them are those with restrained glances, peers.
التربة بالفتح فالسكون: الضعفة
Al-turbah, with fath then sukūn: the weak.
واد قرب مكة على يومين منها
A valley near Mecca, two days' journey from it.