Quranic root
سكب
s · k · b
The root centers on pouring something out or causing it to flow forth.
The imagery of poured liquid extends to descriptions of continual flow, rapid movement, liveliness, and channels or things that convey water.
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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.
مَسْكُوبٌ
maskūbun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
Poured forth; made to flow out.
In the Quran, used of water in the expression ماءٍ مَسْكُوبٍ, describing water poured or flowing forth.
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- Lane · entry 41583
Selected Quran examples
Quran 56:31word 2
“poured forth”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 56:31مَّسْكُوبٍۢpoured forth
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 17 Classical meanings
سَكَبَ
To pour out or forth; to flow or become poured out.
Used intransitively of water, tears, and the like, and transitively of pouring them out.
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سَكْبٌ / سَكُوبٌ
Poured-out or running water; something continually pouring or pouring abundantly.
Applied to water and, by extension, to blood, clouds, or a wound that pours; the forms may function as descriptive epithets.
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سَاكِبٌ
Flowing or pouring, especially of tears.
The active-participle form is applied to tears; a passive-participle form مُنْسَكِبٌ is also reported for this idea.
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سَكْبٌ
Fleet, swift, wide-stepping, or excellent in running; brisk and lively.
Applied to a horse, and also to a person or boy in the sense of being light-spirited, active, or sprightly.
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سَكْبٌ
A thin, delicate kind of cloth or garment.
A figurative description likening the cloth's thinness to pouring water.
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سَكَبٌ
Tall.
Reported as an application to a man and as a dialectal variant of سَقْبٌ.
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سَكْبٌ
A necessary or unavoidable thing or affair; an unavoidable disgrace.
Used in an idiomatic or figurative expression for something that cannot be evaded, including an inescapable disgrace.
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سَكْبٌ
Copper or brass; also reported for lead.
The identification varies among authorities, with lead given as an alternative or additional meaning.
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سَكَبٌ
A named plant or tree of the plains and valleys, variously identified with several fragrant or flowering plants.
Reported identifications include a fragrant herb or tree, a yellow-flowered plant, the anemone, and a hot-season tree.
- Lane · entry 41584
سَكَابٌ / سَكَابِ
A name given to certain horses.
The names are associated with the sense of being fleet or swift.
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سَاكِبُ المَاءِ
The sign of Aquarius.
A traditional name for the eleventh zodiacal sign, also called الدَّلْوُ.
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أُسْكُبَّةٌ
The threshold of a door.
The word is explained through the related form أُسْكُفَّةٌ.
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أُسْكُوبٌ
Lightning extending downward toward the earth.
The image is understood as though the lightning were pouring forth rain.
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أُسْكُوبٌ
A row of palm trees.
For trees other than palms, other terms are reported instead.
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أُسْكُوبٌ
A shoemaker or leather worker; also a blacksmith.
This is given as equivalent to إِسْكَافٌ, with blacksmith reported as an additional sense.
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المِسْكَبَةُ
The higher or highest small irrigation channel from which other channels receive water.
A small conveying channel used to distribute irrigation water.
- Lane · entry 41594
المِسْكَبَةُ
The Milky Way.
A doubtful manuscript reading reported in connection with the word; the source itself suspects a transcription error.
- Lane · entry 41594
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is the passive participle مَسْكُوبٌ; related verbs, nouns, adjectives, and derived forms are therefore kept as distinct Classical Arabic entries.
The botanical identifications under سَكَبٌ and the Milky Way identification under المِسْكَبَةُ are reported with source-level variation or manuscript uncertainty.