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Quranic root

ثبر

th · b · r

The root encompasses three principal orientations: ease or softness, ruin and loss, and persistent application.

The lexical field connects easy or soft ground and the ebbing of the sea with a separate branch of perdition, loss, and destruction, while ثابر and related forms express sustained perseverance.

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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.

مَثْبُور

mathbūr

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.

  1. Ruined, destroyed, or brought to perdition; made to perish.

    A Quranic passive-participle use describing a person in a state of destruction or ruin.

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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 17:102word 15

    (you are) destroyed

  2. Deprived of good, overcome, or rendered unsuccessful; consequently lost or astray.

    In the Quranic construction, the participle is also interpreted as driven away or outcast, punished or accursed, and as prevented from attaining what is good. An exegetical interpretation explains it as deficient in intellect, understood as a form of profound ruin.

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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 17:102word 15

    (you are) destroyed

ثُبُور

thubūr

Part of speech
Verbal noun
Quran occurrences
4 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.

  1. Perdition, ruin, or destruction, including loss, corruption, and being lost, especially destruction from which there is no return.

    Used as an accusative verbal noun in Quranic calls for destruction or perdition. It can function as singular or plural and can express a cry of woe.

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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 25:13word 9

    (for) destruction

    Quran 25:14word 7

    (for) destructions

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 17:102مَثْبُورًۭا(you are) destroyed
  • 25:13ثُبُورًۭا(for) destruction
  • 25:14ثُبُورًۭا(for) destruction
  • 25:14ثُبُورًۭا(for) destructions
  • 84:11ثُبُورًۭا(for) destruction
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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 11 Classical meanings
  • ثَبَرَ

    To confine, restrict, restrain, withhold, hinder, or prevent someone; to turn him away or back from something.

    Transitive; the construction may restrict someone to a thing or restrain him from it.

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  • ثَبَرَ

    To deny or debar someone from attaining what he desires; to disappoint or frustrate his desire or hope.

    A transitive use describing frustrated attainment or unsuccessful effort.

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  • ثَبَرَ

    To drive away, expel, or banish.

    Transitive use describing removal from a place or group.

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  • ثَبَرَ

    To curse.

    A transitive use expressing imprecation or the laying of a curse.

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  • ثَبَرَ

    To destroy someone with an irreversible destruction, so that he does not rise again.

    Transitive use; distinct from the intransitive meaning ‘to perish.’

    • Lane · entry 27125
  • ثَبَرَ

    To perish, suffer loss, err, go astray, or become lost.

    Intransitive use describing a person or thing that comes to ruin or is lost.

    • Lane · entry 27125
  • ثَبَرَ

    Of the sea: to ebb.

    Used with the sea as subject; the ebb exposes ground characterized as soft or easy.

    • Lane · entry 27125
  • ثَابَرَ

    To keep to, attend to, or apply oneself constantly, perseveringly, or assiduously to something.

    Commonly construed with عَلَيْهِ, ‘to it’; describes sustained application to an affair or activity.

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  • تَثَابَرَ

    To leap or spring upon one another in war or combat.

    Reciprocal use describing combatants attacking one another.

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  • اِثْبَارَرَ

    To be heavy or sluggish and hold oneself back from something.

    Used with عَنْهُ, ‘from it,’ for reluctance or sluggish withdrawal from an undertaking.

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  • ثَابِر

    Suffering loss, erring, going astray, becoming lost, or perishing; a loser.

    Active-participial adjective describing one undergoing loss or ruin.

    • Lane · entry 27131

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • مَثْبُور in the Quranic address admits several closely related interpretations—destroyed, deprived of good, overcome, outcast or accursed, and deficient in intellect—rather than a set of unrelated lexical items.