Quranic root
أبب
ʾ · b · b
The root has two principal semantic orientations: pasture or vegetal provision, and directed preparation or purposeful movement.
One branch names herbage produced for animal use, especially pasture prepared for grazing or cutting. The other develops through preparing oneself for departure or an intended action, directing one's course, and aiming toward a destination; the related noun إِبَّانٌ denotes an appointed or prepared time.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَبّ
ʾabb
- Part of speech
- 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.
Pasture or herbage prepared for grazing or cutting, including fresh or dry fodder on which livestock feed.
In the Quranic occurrence, the word is coordinated with fruit and denotes herbage prepared for animal use.
- Lane · entry 5922
- Mufradāt · row 7
Selected Quran examples
Quran 80:31word 2
“and grass”
Vegetation or plant growth produced by the earth generally, including green plants and straw.
A broader interpretation of the Quranic occurrence in 80:31, extending the word beyond pasture to plant matter produced by the earth.
- Lane · entry 5922
Dried fruits kept or prepared as provisions for winter or travel.
A reported interpretation of the Quranic occurrence in 80:31, emphasizing produce stored for later use rather than pasture.
- Lane · entry 5922
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 80:31وَأَبًّۭاand grass
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 7 Classical meanings
أَبَّ
To prepare or equip oneself for an intended action, especially departure or journeying; to resolve to go.
It may be used of preparing to draw a sword; related verbal nouns denote preparation or equipment, and a reported waw variant refers to preparing to charge in battle.
- Lane · entry 5918
- Mufradāt · row 7
أَبَّ
To tend or direct one's course toward someone or something, and to pursue another's course by doing as that person does.
This is a directional or imitative use distinct from the preparation-for-departure sense.
- Lane · entry 5918
أَبَّ
To yearn for, long for, or long to see one's homeland.
Used with a reference to the homeland or place toward which the longing is directed.
- Lane · entry 5918
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أَبَابَةٌ / إِبَابَةٌ
A way or course of acting; conduct that is rightly directed or ordered.
The nouns denote a person's mode of conduct, and the associated expression can describe conduct becoming properly ordered.
- Lane · entry 5918
- Lane · entry 5923
أَبٌّ
A dialectal variant of أَبٌ, meaning father.
This is a reported dialectal nominal use, separate from the Quranic noun meaning pasture or vegetation.
- Lane · entry 5922
اِسْتَأَبَّهُ
To adopt someone as a father, or to adopt a father.
The form is described as an exceptional derived expression; the regularized variant اِسْتَأْبَاهُ is also reported.
- Lane · entry 5920
إِبَّانٌ
The time or season of a thing, especially the season when it occurs or is prepared, such as the season of fruit.
The noun can denote either the appropriate time of occurrence or the time appointed for preparation.
- Lane · entry 5924
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence in 80:31 has several attested interpretations: pasture or fodder, broader plant growth including straw, and dried fruits prepared for later use.