Quranic root
سبغ
s · b · gh
The root expresses completeness, fullness, and sufficiency, especially when something extends fully in breadth or length.
The evidence develops fullness into extended or full coverage, abundant provision, fully performed actions, complete benefits, and full-covering armor, while also showing specialized bodily, anatomical, and reproductive usages.
- Maqāyīs · row 2349
- Mufradāt · row 656
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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.
أَسْبَغَ
ʾasbagha
- 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 bestow fully and abundantly, especially to bestow blessings in full measure.
In the Quranic usage, the verb governs divine blessings bestowed upon people and emphasizes their completeness and abundance.
- Lane · entry 40090
- Mufradāt · row 656
Selected Quran examples
Quran 31:20word 13
“and amply bestowed”
سَابِغَةٌ
sābighahun
- Part of speech
- Active participle · substantivized
- 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.
Complete, ample, and long; specifically, a full-covering coat of mail.
The Quran uses the feminine plural form substantively for coats of mail, describing armor that is broad, complete, and sufficiently long.
- Lane · entry 40093
- Mufradāt · row 656
Selected Quran examples
Quran 34:11word 3
“full coats of mail”
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 19 Classical meanings
سَبَغَ
To be complete, full, ample, or long; of a garment, hair, or another thing, and in an expression for a horse's rib, to be full-length.
The same fullness branch is used of a benefit or boon becoming ample.
- Lane · entry 40088
سَبَغَ
Of rain, to approach the earth and extend or spread.
A figurative or extended use describing rain as reaching downward and spreading.
- Lane · entry 40088
سَبَغَ لِبَلَدِهِ
To tend toward and reach one's town or country.
An idiomatic construction with لِـ marking the destination.
- Lane · entry 40088
سَبَّغَتْ
To cast young abortively or in an incomplete state.
Said of a camel or other pregnant female; the source also applies it when the fetus's hair or fur has grown.
- Lane · entry 40089
أَسْبَغَ
To make a thing complete, full, ample, wide, or long.
Applied especially to a garment or similar object, and to hair when made long; this is the general causative fullness use.
- Lane · entry 40090
أَسْبَغَ
To provide someone fully for their needs, or to expend upon them what is completely sufficient.
A construction describing ample provision or expenditure for another person.
- Lane · entry 40090
أَسْبَغَ
To perform an ablution completely, giving each member its due and making the washing reach its proper places.
A conventional religious-ritual construction with الوضوء.
- Lane · entry 40090
أَسْبَغَ
To put on a wide, ample, or long coat of mail.
A specialized armor-related use.
- Lane · entry 40090
سَبْغَةٌ
Plentifulness, pleasantness, ease, and softness or delicacy of life.
Used in the expression سَبْغَةٌ مِنَ العَيْشِ for a life of plentiful and comfortable circumstances.
- Lane · entry 40092
سَابِغٌ
Complete, full, ample, or long; of a garment, coat of mail, tail, bucket, or another thing; also copious of rain and full or ample of a benefit.
These are established adjectival applications of the same fullness and extension branch, including descriptions of armor and other objects.
- Lane · entry 40093
سَابِغٌ
In established bodily descriptions, full or without defect in an udder, and without deficiency and long in the ribs.
Applies in the cited expressions سَابِغَةُ الضَّرْعِ and سَابِغَةُ الضُّلُوعِ.
- Lane · entry 40093
سَابِغٌ
Long of buttock; of a man, large in the buttocks.
A specialized anatomical use in descriptions of the buttocks.
- Lane · entry 40093
سَابِغٌ
Of a stallion, long in the veretrum.
A specialized anatomical description of a male animal.
- Lane · entry 40093
سَابِغٌ
Of a gum, foul or ugly.
A specialized bodily description.
- Lane · entry 40093
أَسْبَغُ
More or most complete, full, ample, or free from deficiency in breadth and length.
Used as a comparative or superlative adjective, including in a description of a coat of mail.
- Lane · entry 40094
تَسْبِغَةٌ
A piece of mail joined to a helmet that protects the neck; also mail forming the lower fringe of a helmet.
The descriptions vary on whether this piece is identical with the رَفْرَف, but agree on its armor-related neck protection.
- Lane · entry 40096
مُسْبِغٌ
A man wearing a coat of mail of the ample, full-covering type.
A nominal description of a person equipped with سَابِغَةٌ armor.
- Lane · entry 40097
مُسَبَّغٌ
A young animal cast by its mother after the soul has been blown into it.
A specialized passive-participial term for the young so cast.
- Lane · entry 40098
مِسْبَاغٌ
A she-camel that habitually casts her young abortively.
A rare or little-known term for this reproductive condition.
- Lane · entry 40100
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The technical distinction between تَسْبِغَةٌ and رَفْرَفٌ in helmet construction is reported differently in the lexical evidence; the shared core is a mail component protecting the neck.