Quranic root
وقب
w · q · b
The root centers on something entering, disappearing into, or being concealed within a hollow or recess.
From this spatial notion, the lexicon develops usages for descent and settling, setting or eclipse, concealment, and various specialized cavity-related applications.
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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.
وَقَبَ
waqaba
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
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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 come in upon and settle over, or spread through, as night or darkness.
In the Quranic construction with غَاسِقٍ, the subject is night or darkness; the expression describes its onset and enveloping presence, rather than the general spatial sense of entering a cavity.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 113:3word 5
“it spreads”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 113:3وَقَبَit spreads
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 25 Classical meanings
وَقْبٌ
A hollow, cavity, socket, or hole: especially a small hollow in rock or mountain where water collects; a body socket or cavity; a pit above a horse’s eye; or a hole receiving a pulley axle.
The particular cavity may be geological, anatomical, equine, or mechanical.
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وَقَبَ
To enter, including to enter into a hollow or cavity.
An intransitive use; the destination may be expressed as a وَقْبٌ or understood from context.
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وَقَبَ
To set, of the sun; to enter its place of setting.
A conventional usage describing the sun’s disappearance below the horizon.
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وَقَبَ
To enter an eclipse, of the moon; to pass into the cone-shaped shadow of the earth.
Used specifically of the moon during an eclipse.
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وَقَبَ
For the eyes to become sunken or depressed in the head.
Used of a person’s eyes.
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وَقَبَ
To make a sound with the prepuce through movement of the penis, of a horse.
A specialized animal and anatomical usage.
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وَقَبَ
To become absent, hidden, or concealed.
The subject may be a person or a thing.
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وَقَبَ
To come, approach, or advance.
A movement-related intransitive use distinct from becoming hidden or entering a cavity.
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أَوْقَبَ
For a palm tree to become rotten in the fruit-bearing stalks of its racemes.
Used of a palm tree and its fruit-bearing stalks.
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أَوْقَبَ
To hunger or suffer hunger.
Used of a person or people.
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أَوْقَبَ
To put a thing into a hollow or cavity.
The object is caused to enter a وَقْبَة or وَقْب.
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وَقْبٌ
A stupid, foolish, or dull-witted person.
Recorded as an epithet, especially of a man; the plural is أَوْقَابٌ.
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وَقْبٌ
A despised, contemptible, low, base, or ignoble man.
A derogatory personal epithet.
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قِبَةٌ
An enlarged stomach sac in the belly of a sheep, goat, or similar animal, resembling the specified stomach organ.
A technical anatomical term restricted in the lexical evidence to animals of the شَاء class.
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وَقْبَةٌ
A large aperture or hole in a wall in which there is shade; also a cavity or hollow in a vessel, stone, or food preparation.
Includes cavities such as the hollow of a vessel for ointment or the cavity of a dish of tharīd.
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وُقْبِيٌّ
Fond of, or inclined toward, the company of stupid or foolish people.
An adjectival description derived from أَوْقَابٌ in its sense ‘foolish persons’.
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أَوْقَابٌ
The meaner sort of utensils and household or tent furniture.
A plural lexical item used for the ordinary equipment of a house or tent.
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أَوْقَبُ
Highly penetrating sexually, specifically of a penis.
A specialized anatomical adjective.
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وَقْبَاءُ
A well whose water sinks into the earth.
Used in the expression رَكِيَّةٌ وَقْبَاءُ.
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مِيقَبٌ
The shell known as a cowry.
A lexical name for the shell, synonymous with وَدَعَةٌ.
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مِيقَابٌ
A man who drinks much water or much of the beverage called نَبِيذٌ.
The defining feature is habitual or excessive drinking.
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مِيقَابٌ
A stupid or foolish woman; also, a woman said to give birth to stupid or foolish children.
A feminine personal epithet with the two reported applications.
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مِيقَابٌ
A woman possessing a vulva.
A specialized anatomical usage of the epithet.
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بَنُو المِيقَابِ
A reproachful appellation for a group, referring disparagingly to their mother.
A fixed or conventional expression rather than a general kinship term.
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سَيْرُ المِيقَابِ
A journeying continued for a full day and night together.
A conventional expression describing uninterrupted travel.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The foolish-person sense of وَقْبٌ is recorded in the lexical evidence, but the root analysis treats it as an ibdāl from وَغْبٌ; it should not be conflated with the cavity and entry semantic center.
The Quranic form has one occurrence and is represented specifically in its night-or-darkness construction; the contextual gloss “it spreads” does not create an additional independent sense.