Quranic root
وبل
w · b · l
The root centers on concentrated intensity, heaviness, and gathering, exemplified by heavy rain and by things whose effects are weighty or harmful.
The semantic development proceeds from gathered, forceful rain to physical heaviness and then to grievous consequences, burdensome conditions, forceful actions, and other difficult or harmful things.
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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.
وَابِلٌ
wābilun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
Heavy or violent rain, especially rain falling in large drops.
A Quranic noun for intense rainfall; the related form وَبْلٌ denotes the same rain phenomenon in Classical usage.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:264word 25
“heavy rain”
Quran 2:265word 15
“heavy rain”
وَبَالٌ
wabālun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 occurrences
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A harmful consequence or evil result of an affair or action.
Used for the consequence of an affair, especially in the construction وَبَالَ أَمْرِهِ or وَبَالَ أَمْرِهِمْ; context may render it as a consequence, bad consequence, or evil result.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:95word 36
“(the) consequence”
Quran 59:15word 7
“(the) evil result”
Quran 64:5word 9
“(the bad) consequence”
وَبِيلٌ
wabīlun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Grievous, ruinous, or harmful in its consequences.
In the Quranic expression أَخْذًا وَبِيلًا, it describes a severe or ruinous taking or seizure.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 73:16word 6
“ruinous”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:264وَابِلٌۭheavy rain
- 2:265وَابِلٌۭheavy rain
- 2:265وَابِلٌۭheavy rain
- 5:95وَبَالَ(the) consequence
- 59:15وَبَالَ(the) evil result
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 12 Classical meanings
وَبَلَ
To run vehemently.
Attested in a description of a horse; the example does not establish an exclusive subject restriction.
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وَبَلَتِ السَّمَاءُ
Of the sky, to bring heavy rain.
A conventional verbal construction describing the sky's producing intense rainfall.
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وَبَلَةٌ
The heaviness or weight of a thing.
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وَبِيلٌ
Harmful or deleterious, said of something whose effects are feared.
The broader Classical application includes food and pasture feared for their harmful effects; the Quranic construction is listed separately under وَبِيلٌ.
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وَبِيلٌ
A severe beating.
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وَبِيلٌ
A burdensome or ineffectual man in an undertaking, one who does not set it right.
A figurative description of a person in charge of an affair.
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مَوْبِلٌ
Rough, difficult, or severely rugged terrain.
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وَبِيلٌ
The wooden beater used by a fuller to pound cloth.
A concrete tool term.
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وَبِيلٌ
A bundle of firewood.
A concrete noun for a gathered bundle of wood.
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وَبِيلٌ
Pasture or forage, whether fresh or dry.
A lexical use applied to herbage in either condition.
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وَابِلَةٌ
An anatomical joint extremity or bone, described either as the knee-joint bone or as the scapula's glenoid extremity, together with adjacent flesh or muscle.
An anatomical term whose precise identification varies in the recorded descriptions.
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اِسْتَوْبَلَ
To find a place disagreeable or unsuitable, even while liking it.
A verbal construction describing a place that does not agree with or suit someone.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The anatomical term وَابِلَةٌ has differing recorded identifications, involving the knee joint in one description and the scapula in another.