Quranic root
جبب
j · b · b
The root is organized around two related principles: cutting or severing, and gathering or enclosing.
Cutting develops into removal, extirpation, and metaphorical overcoming; gathering or enclosing appears in garments, receptacles, accumulated substances, and related object names. The Quranic جُبّ belongs to the well vocabulary.
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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.
جُبّ
jubb
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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 well.
In the Quranic account of Joseph, the noun denotes the well into which Joseph is cast. The Quran-focused lexical explanation specifies a well that has not been lined or paved with masonry.
- Lane · entry 45831
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:10word 10
“(of) the well”
Quran 12:15word 9
“(of) the well”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 39 Classical meanings
جَبَّ
To cut, cut off, or extirpate.
The verb may be used generally for cutting something off entirely, including the hump of a camel.
- Lane · entry 45823
جَبَّ
To castrate or emasculate; to cut off the genitals.
A transitive use referring to complete removal of the penis, testicles, or genitals.
- Lane · entry 45823
جَبَّ
To pollinate palm trees with pollen from the male tree.
A specialized agricultural use; the associated season is called the time of جِبَاب or جَبَاب.
- Lane · entry 45823
جَبَّ
To surpass or overcome people in a contest of merit, beauty, honor, or similar distinction.
The verb can describe one person surpassing others, especially in beauty or grounds for esteem.
- Lane · entry 45823
جَبَّبَ
To have or produce a horse marking in which the whiteness of the legs rises toward the knees and hocks.
A specialized description of the extent of تَحْجِيل, the white marking on a horse's lower legs.
- Lane · entry 45824
جَبَّبَ
To shrink from, be averse to, withdraw from, or relinquish something.
The withdrawal may be outward or inward; the construction can describe abandoning obedience or an undertaking.
- Lane · entry 45824
جَبَّبَ
To flee.
This is a more specific use of withdrawing or going away from something.
- Lane · entry 45824
جَبَّبَ
To satisfy the earth or cattle with water.
A specialized use referring to supplying water to the earth or to livestock.
- Lane · entry 45824
جِبَاب
Vying or contending for superiority in beauty, honor, lineage, hospitality, or similar qualities.
The related verb describes one person competing with another and prevailing; the extension to food is reported but qualified in the lexical discussion.
- Lane · entry 45825
أَجَبَّ
Of a camel's milk, to produce جُبَاب, the substance that gathers like butter.
A specialized verbal use concerning the formation of the camel-milk product called جُبَاب.
- Lane · entry 45826
تَجَبَّبَ
To put on a جُبَّة, a garment or tunic.
The verb is denominal, formed from the garment name جُبَّة.
- Lane · entry 45827
جَبْجَبَ
To deal or trade in جَبَاجِب, the plural of جُبْجُبَة.
A specialized commercial use referring to the containers or tripe called جُبْجُبَة.
- Lane · entry 45829
تَجَبْجَبَ
To prepare a جُبْجُبَة, or to put preserved meat into one.
The preparation concerns a stomach or skin receptacle used for provisions; the preserved meat is called خَلْع in the cited explanation.
- Lane · entry 45830
جُبّ
A well dug for planting a grapevine or similar shoot.
A specialized agricultural type of well.
- Lane · entry 45831
جُبّ
The interior shaft or inside of a well, from bottom to top.
This denotes the well's internal extent, whether or not it is lined.
- Lane · entry 45831
جُبّ
The hollowed stone or basin at the mouth of a well.
A specialized architectural sense referring to a stone receptacle or parapet-like structure at the well opening.
- Lane · entry 45831
جُبّ
A leather bag or sewn hide vessel used for preparing a fermented beverage.
A traditional container made by sewing one part of a hide to another; its use is mentioned in connection with a prohibition on such vessels.
- Lane · entry 45831
جُبّ
The spathe or envelope surrounding the flowers of a palm tree.
The word may be exchanged with جُفّ in this sense; it is explained through the enclosing interior of the palm inflorescence.
- Lane · entry 45831
جُبَّة
A garment, coat, or tunic; also a coat of mail or other defensive coat.
The garment may be cut and sewn, quilted, woollen, or used as protective clothing.
- Lane · entry 45832
جُبَّة
A receiving, enclosing, or joint-like part: the socket of a spearhead, the part of a horn containing its core, the bony enclosure of the eye, or a receiving joint or junction in a horse's limb or hoof.
The sense covers several specialized anatomical and implement terms united by the notion of a part receiving or enclosing another part.
- Lane · entry 45832
جُبَّة
White hair or marking on the lower part of a horse's leg extending toward the hoof.
A specialized equine-color term concerning whiteness around the lower leg and hoof.
- Lane · entry 45832
جَبَب
The cutting off, cutting into, or erosion of a camel's hump.
The term can describe either deliberate removal or erosion caused by a saddle so that the hump does not grow large.
- Lane · entry 45833
جُبَب
The butter-like substance that gathers on the surface of camel milk.
This is the coagulated or collected product of camel milk, distinguished from ordinary زُبْد made from cow, sheep, or goat milk.
- Lane · entry 45834
جَبُوب
Earth or ground, especially hard, rugged, rocky, or cloddy ground.
The word may denote the surface of the earth generally, rough land, or lumps and clods of tough clay or mud.
- Lane · entry 45835
جَبُوب
A burial ground or cemetery.
This use is connected lexically with the earth or ground in which burial takes place.
- Lane · entry 45835
جُبِّيّ
A seller of جِبَاب, plural garments or coats.
A nisbah-like occupational designation derived from جُبَّة.
- Lane · entry 45837
جُبْجُبَة
The stomach or tripe of a ruminant animal.
It may serve as a receptacle in which preserved meat, melted fat, or provisions are placed.
- Lane · entry 45841
جُبْجُبَة
A rounded skin vessel or receptacle for water, preserved meat, grease, or other preparations.
Uses include giving water to camels and macerating colocynth; a camel-side skin could also be fashioned for preparing lasting provisions.
- Lane · entry 45841
جُبْجُبَة
A small basket or carrier made of skins for removing dust or earth.
The plural جَبَاجِب is used for such skin baskets.
- Lane · entry 45841
جُبْجُبَة
A drum.
The plural جَبَاجِب occurs in expressions about drums being beaten.
- Lane · entry 45841
جُبْجُبِيّ
A seller of tripe.
An occupational designation derived from جُبْجُبَة.
- Lane · entry 45842
جُبْجُبِيَّة
Food prepared with tripe.
A culinary derivative associated with the tripe sense of جُبْجُبَة.
- Lane · entry 45843
أَجَبُّ
Of a camel, having its hump cut off, eroded, or absent.
The feminine form is جَبَّاءُ; the description can refer to deliberate removal or loss of the hump's prominence.
- Lane · entry 45844
جَبَّاءُ
Of a woman, lacking prominent buttocks or breasts, or having lean thighs.
These are explicitly reported feminine applications of the adjective and are not general restrictions on the root.
- Lane · entry 45844
أَجَبُّ
The female pudendum.
A specialized anatomical noun use reported as equivalent to الفرج.
- Lane · entry 45844
مَجَبَّة
The middle or main part of a road.
The word denotes the beaten or central course of a road.
- Lane · entry 45845
مُجَبَّب
A horse whose leg whiteness rises toward the knees and hocks or reaches the hairs around the hoof.
The exact extent of the white marking varies among the cited descriptions, but the term belongs to equine leg coloration.
- Lane · entry 45846
مُجَبَّبَة
Of a well, having a wider, cupola-like hollow in its middle.
A specialized description of the well's internal shape.
- Lane · entry 45846
مَجْبُوب
Having the genitals, testicles, or penis cut off or extirpated.
A passive participial description of complete castration or emasculation.
- Lane · entry 45847
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The two Quran occurrences are inflected genitive forms جُبِّ; the public headword is normalized to the citation form جُبّ.
Classical sources record several physical descriptions of a جُبّ; the Quran-focused interpretation specifically identifies the Yusuf passage as an unlined well without making that specification universal.
The broader Classical meanings include several derived forms and homonymous object names; they are kept separate from the Quranic well sense.