Quranic root
شرب
sh · r · b
The root denotes drinking, especially taking a liquid into the body; related meanings extend through absorption, saturation, allocation of water, and places or times of drinking.
The primary sense is the well-known act of drinking. By metaphor and resemblance, the root develops meanings of something permeating or being imbibed, of a share or access to water, and of raising the neck as if preparing to drink.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
شَرِبَ
shariba
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 15 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To drink: to take water or another liquid into the body.
Used for the ordinary act of drinking, including drinking from a vessel and drinking a liquid in a single draught or gradually.
- Lane · entry 38187
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Selected Quran examples
أَشْرَبَ
ʾashraba
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To cause something to permeate the heart as an imbibed substance; in the passive, to have the love of something infused into one's heart.
The Quranic construction أُشْرِبُوا فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الْعِجْلَ means that the love of the calf was made to permeate their hearts; the object is understood as the love of the named thing.
- Lane · entry 38190
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:93word 15
“And they were made to drink”
شَرَابٌ
sharābun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 11 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A beverage or drinkable liquid.
Covers water and other liquids, including a drink prepared for consumption; the Quranic noun may refer to a drink generally or to a specified drink in a scene of reward or punishment.
- Lane · entry 38205
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Selected Quran examples
شِرْبٌ
shirbun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
An allotted share or turn of drinking water.
Used in the Quranic water-sharing construction in which different parties have designated drinking rights or days.
- Lane · entry 38197
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:155word 5
“(is a share of) drink”
Quran 54:28word 7
“drink”
شُرْبٌ
shurbun
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
The act or manner of drinking.
In the Quranic expression شُرْبَ الْهِيمِ, it characterizes the manner or intensity of drinking by comparison with thirsty camels; it is not a separate beverage noun.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 56:55word 2
“(as) drinking”
شَارِبٌ
shāribun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 5 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
One who drinks; a drinker.
The supplied Quran occurrences use the plural active participle شَارِبُونَ / شَارِبِينَ for people who drink or are drinking.
- Lane · entry 38214
Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:66word 17
“to the drinkers”
Quran 56:54word 1
“And drink”
مَشْرَبٌ
mashrabun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A place, source, or designated point of drinking.
In the Quranic uses, especially the plural مَشَارِب, the word denotes a designated drinking place or source; the related lexical pattern can also denote the time or manner of drinking.
- Lane · entry 38217
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:60word 18
“their drinking place”
Quran 7:160word 25
“their drinking place”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:60مَّشْرَبَهُمْ ۖtheir drinking place
- 2:60وَٱشْرَبُوا۟and drink
- 2:93وَأُشْرِبُوا۟And they were made to drink
- 2:187وَٱشْرَبُوا۟and drink
- 2:249شَرِبَdrinks
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 71 Classical meanings
تَشْرَابٌ
Intensive or abundant drinking.
A derived verbal noun used when muchness of the act is intended.
- Lane · entry 38187
شَرِبَ
To swallow or take medicine, whether liquid or solid.
A conventional medical usage, distinct from ordinary drinking of a liquid.
- Lane · entry 38187
شَرِبَ
To inhale or smoke tobacco.
A later or specialized usage in which smoke is treated as being imbibed.
- Lane · entry 38187
شَرِبَ / أُشْرِبَ
For a crop, stalk, or ear of grain to absorb sap, nourishment, or farina and become filled or near maturity.
A figurative agricultural use based on the image of a plant imbibing liquid.
- Lane · entry 38187
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- Lane · entry 38190
- Lane · entry 38214
شَرِبَ
To consume or devour something figuratively, including another's livestock, milk, or property.
A tropical extension in which consumption is described as eating or drinking the object.
- Lane · entry 38187
مَا لَمْ أَشْرَبْ
To charge or accuse someone of an act that he did not commit.
Occurs in the idiomatic expression literally meaning ‘you made me drink what I did not drink.’
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- Lane · entry 38190
شَرِبَ
To be satisfied by drinking, or conversely to be thirsty.
The sources record both opposite applications; the intended sense depends on context and usage.
- Lane · entry 38187
شَرِبَ بِهِ
To lie against someone.
A fixed prepositional idiom, not the ordinary transitive sense ‘to drink.’
- Lane · entry 38187
شَرَبَ
To understand or comprehend what has been conveyed.
A distinct dialectal or lexical usage, illustrated by the exhortation to listen and then understand.
- Lane · entry 38187
شَرَّبَ
To make someone drink or give someone a drink.
Causative Form II usage with a person or other recipient as object.
- Lane · entry 38188
شَرَّبَ
To provide people or livestock with food and drink; figuratively, to let livestock pasture freely.
The feeding sense may be expressed with property or cattle as the supplied object.
- Lane · entry 38188
شَرَّبَ
To water land or palm trees.
A causative agricultural use.
- Lane · entry 38188
شَرَّبَ
To imbue or soak a morsel with grease, gravy, or another liquid.
The object is made to absorb the saturating substance.
- Lane · entry 38188
شَرَّبَ
To treat a new waterskin with clay and water so that its taste becomes agreeable.
A specialized preparation of a water container.
- Lane · entry 38188
شَارَبَ
To drink with another, or to water camels together with another person.
Form III expresses reciprocal participation in drinking or watering.
- Lane · entry 38189
أَشْرَبَ
To give camels water or cause them to drink.
A causative Form IV usage synonymous with watering.
- Lane · entry 38190
أَشْرَبَ
To saturate, suffuse, or intermingle one thing with another, especially a color with a material or another color.
The same extension is used of a sound mixed with another sound.
- Lane · entry 38190
أَشْرَبَ
To make something disappear into or be swallowed up by the air.
A figurative construction describing an object raised so high or quickly that it becomes barely visible.
- Lane · entry 38190
أَشْرَبَ
To put a rope or cord on the neck, or to tie camels to one another.
A specialized tropical use with people, camels, or horses as the object.
- Lane · entry 38190
أَشْرَبَ
To reach the time appointed for watering one's camels.
An intransitive Form IV usage.
- Lane · entry 38190
تَشَرَّبَ
To absorb or imbibe something gradually; for a dye to permeate a garment.
The sources specifically describe gradual absorption and also a construction in which the dye pervades the cloth.
- Lane · entry 38191
اِسْتَشْرَبَ
For a color to become intense or deeply saturated.
A derived intransitive color term.
- Lane · entry 38192
اِشْرَأَبَّ
To stretch out or raise the neck, especially to look; by extension, to raise or exalt oneself.
The original image is of an animal extending its neck in preparation to drink; the common extended use is looking attentively or becoming exalted.
- Lane · entry 38194
شَرْبٌ
The act of drinking, as the verbal noun of شَرِبَ.
A verbal-noun usage distinct in vocalization from the Quranic شُرْبٌ form.
- Lane · entry 38195
شَرْبٌ
People drinking or assembled for drinking; a collective or quasi-plural of شَارِبٌ.
This plural-like use refers to a group rather than to the act itself.
- Lane · entry 38195
- Lane · entry 38214
شَرْبٌ
A fine species of flax.
A lexicographical attribution recorded for this headword; its status is less secure than the drinking-related meanings.
- Lane · entry 38195
شُرْبٌ
A person characterized as drinking much.
Used as an epithet in the expression أَخُوكَ شُرْبٌ, effectively ‘your brother is a heavy drinker.’
- Lane · entry 38196
شِرْبٌ
Water itself, or water fit to be drunk, sometimes specifically a drinkable but particular kind of water.
A lexical use distinct from شِرْبٌ meaning an allotted share of water.
- Lane · entry 38197
شِرْبٌ
A draught of milk.
A specifically attested liquid and quantity sense.
- Lane · entry 38197
شِرْبٌ
The use of, or right to use, water for irrigating fields and watering animals.
A technical legal term concerning water rights.
- Lane · entry 38197
شِرْبٌ
A watering place.
Synonymous with a place to which people or animals come for water.
- Lane · entry 38197
شِرْبٌ
A time of drinking.
The sources describe this as a tropical application and report disagreement about its connection with the primary sense.
- Lane · entry 38197
شَرْبَةٌ
A single act or draught of drinking, or the quantity drunk at one time.
It may refer to a draught of water or wine without creating a separate beverage sense.
- Lane · entry 38199
شَرْبَةٌ
A dose of medicine taken by drinking or eating.
A conventional medical term.
- Lane · entry 38199
شَرْبَةٌ
A palm tree growing from a date stone.
A botanical noun, unrelated to the ordinary quantity sense except by root association.
- Lane · entry 38199
شُرْبَةٌ
A quantity of water sufficient to quench thirst.
A quantity-oriented noun, distinct from a single draught merely by its satisfying effect.
- Lane · entry 38200
شُرْبَةٌ
A tinge or admixture of one color in another, especially redness.
Used of a complexion or other surface that contains a visible coloration.
- Lane · entry 38200
شَرَبَةٌ
Much drinking or the habit of drinking heavily.
The related epithet denotes one who drinks much.
- Lane · entry 38201
شَرَبَةٌ
A small water-filled trough or channel around a tree or an irrigated plot.
The object retains water for irrigating the tree or land; the same term can denote the associated irrigated portion.
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شَرَبَةٌ
Thirst, especially thirst of animals after pasture or when they come to water.
A state resulting in or calling for drinking.
- Lane · entry 38201
شَرَبَةٌ
Vehemence of heat.
The meaning is associated with the increased amount of water drunk on a very hot day.
- Lane · entry 38201
شُرَبَةٌ
One who drinks much.
An epithet for a person who eats and drinks heavily.
- Lane · entry 38202
شُرْبُبٌ
Tangled, dense herbage growing one part above another.
A descriptive noun applied to vegetation.
- Lane · entry 38203
شَرَبَّةٌ
A way, mode, or manner of being or acting.
Used in the expression ‘upon one consistent course or affair.’
- Lane · entry 38204
شَرَبَّةٌ
A soft or plain tract of land producing herbs but lacking trees.
A geographical noun.
- Lane · entry 38204
شَرَبَّةٌ
The side of a valley.
A geographical usage recorded separately from the herb-producing tract sense.
- Lane · entry 38204
شَرَابٌ
A beverage forbidden by religious law.
A legal and post-classical specialization of the general beverage noun.
- Lane · entry 38205
شَرَابٌ
Syrup.
A later usage for a sweet concentrated liquid.
- Lane · entry 38205
شَرُوبٌ
Water that is drinkable but inferior, brackish, bitter, or otherwise disagreeable.
The sources report several distinctions concerning degrees of sweetness and whether humans or animals drink it; the common branch is imperfect drinkability.
- Lane · entry 38206
شَرُوبٌ
A man who drinks vehemently.
An intensive personal epithet.
- Lane · entry 38206
شَرُوبٌ
A she-camel desirous of the stallion.
A specialized animal description.
- Lane · entry 38206
شَرِيبٌ
One who drinks, draws water, or waters camels with another.
A reciprocal or companion sense, distinct from the active participle simply meaning a drinker.
- Lane · entry 38207
شَرَابِيٌّ
A cup-bearer, butler, or seller of wine or syrup.
An occupational noun derived from the beverage sense.
- Lane · entry 38209
شُرَأْبِيبَةٌ
A raising or stretching of the head like an animal preparing to drink.
A verbal noun associated with اِشْرَأَبَّ.
- Lane · entry 38210
شِرِّيبٌ
Addicted to drink, especially wine.
An intensive personal epithet.
- Lane · entry 38212
شُرَّابَةٌ
A tassel.
The entry itself marks this as probably post-classical.
- Lane · entry 38213
شَارِبٌ
The mustache or hair growing over the upper lip.
The plural شَوَارِبُ may refer to the mustache or its two sides.
- Lane · entry 38214
شَارِبَانِ
The two long projections at the lower part of a sword hilt.
A figurative term based on the two long portions of mustache hair.
- Lane · entry 38214
الشَّوَارِبُ
Ducts or channels around the throat, windpipe, and related passages.
An anatomical plural term; authorities differ on the exact structures intended.
- Lane · entry 38214
الشَّوَارِبُ
Channels through which water runs in a spring or source.
A reported lexical application distinct from the anatomical sense.
- Lane · entry 38214
شَارِبٌ
For an ear of grain to be permeated by farina or to have grain approaching maturity.
A figurative agricultural adjective based on imbibing nourishment.
- Lane · entry 38214
شَارِبٌ
Weakness or feebleness in an animal, or a strain of such weakness.
A tropical noun-like use in descriptions of an animal.
- Lane · entry 38214
شَارِبَةٌ
A people or party living on the bank of a river and possessing its water.
A collective noun based on association with a water source.
- Lane · entry 38215
مُشْرِبٌ
A man whose camels have drunk to satisfaction, or whose camels or himself are thirsty.
The participial form can describe either the completed watering or the resulting need for water according to context.
- Lane · entry 38219
مَشْرَبَةٌ
An upper chamber, rooftop room, or roofed vestibule.
An architectural extension explained by the idea that people drink there.
- Lane · entry 38221
مَشْرَبَةٌ
Soft or plain land containing abundant green herbage.
A geographical noun distinct from the architectural sense.
- Lane · entry 38221
مَشْرَبَةٌ
A cause of drinking, especially food that makes one drink much water.
A noun of the pattern denoting something that produces the associated action.
- Lane · entry 38221
مِشْرَبَةٌ
A drinking vessel.
A vessel from which one drinks, distinct from a drinking place.
- Lane · entry 38223
مُشْرَبٌ حُمْرَةً
A complexion tinged or intermixed with redness.
A passive participial description of a color suffused with another color.
- Lane · entry 38218
مُشَرَّبٌ حُمْرَةً
A complexion strongly tinged or intermixed with redness.
The intensified Form II passive participle marks a pronounced admixture of color.
- Lane · entry 38224
مُشَرَّبَةٌ
A technical class of letters whose pronunciation in pause includes a blowing quality without the full stress of the voiced-letter class.
A phonetic term for the letters ز، ظ، ذ، ض, with reported variation in the authorities.
- Lane · entry 38224
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The occurrence at 36:73 is contextually glossed as “drinks,” but the directly supported lexical discussion of مَشْرَبٌ securely establishes a place, source, or point of drinking; the packet does not independently establish a separate beverage sense for that occurrence.
The sheep-or-goat meaning under شَرِيبَةٌ is retained as unresolved evidence because the source explicitly suggests that the headword may instead be سَرِيبَةٌ.
Several Classical entries report competing nuances for water quality, thirst, and time of drinking; those distinctions are preserved without treating every reported variant as a separate Quranic sense.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:$rb:38208:g1:main materially describes a sheep or goat driven back from water, but the entry's own marginal correction says the intended word may be سَرِيبَةٌ, so the meaning is not confidently assigned to شَرِيبَةٌ.
The contextual rendering of مَشَارِبُ at 36:73 as “drinks” is not independently resolved by the supplied lexical evidence; the public Quranic sense therefore uses the securely attested drinking-place/source branch and does not invent a separate beverage sense.