Quranic root
هبو
h · b · w
A semantic orientation toward dustiness or grayness together with fineness and lightness.
This orientation appears in fine airborne dust and motes, dust rising or spreading, and the related description of ashes or embers mixing with dust and going out.
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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.
هَبَاءٌ
habāʾun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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Fine dust or minute motes dispersed in the air.
In the Quran, used in constructions describing dust scattered or spread abroad, including هَبَاءً مَنْثُورًا and هَبَاءً مُنْبَثًّا.
- Lane · entry 17043
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:23word 8
“(as) dust”
Quran 56:6word 2
“dust particles”
Occurrences in the Quran
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Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 2 Classical meanings
هَبَا الرَّمَادُ
Of ashes, and also embers: to become mixed with dust and be extinguished.
An intransitive Form I verb describing the resulting condition of ashes or embers.
- Lane · entry 17040
هَبْوَةٌ
Dust rising or spreading in the sky like smoke.
A noun for a visible spread or cloud of dust.
- Lane · entry 17042