Quranic root
خبو
kh · b · w
The attested semantic orientation centers on a flame becoming quiet, abating, or subsiding, with an associated image of being covered by ash.
The fire-related intransitive use extends figuratively to the abatement of war, anger, or irascibility; Form IV expresses causing such abatement. A related noun denotes a covering.
- Lane · entry 18416
- Lane · entry 18417
- Mufradāt · row 389
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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.
خَبَا
khabā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 subside, abate, or become extinguished, as a fire or flame; in the Quranic use, for the flame of Hell to quiet and become covered with ash.
Intransitive fire-related use. The supplied Quranic occurrence describes Hellfire; the associated ash covering explains the imagery of the flame's abatement rather than establishing a separate sense.
- Lane · entry 18416
- Mufradāt · row 389
Selected Quran examples
Quran 17:97word 25
“it subsides”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 17:97خَبَتْit subsides
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 3 Classical meanings
خَبَا
To abate, be assuaged, or be appeased in figurative uses, especially of war, an irascible disposition, or the vehemence of anger.
Intransitive figurative extension of the fire-related use; the examples include the calming of war, an animal's irascibility, and anger's heat.
- Lane · entry 18416
أَخْبَى
To extinguish or allay a fire; by extension, to quell war or an irascible state.
Form IV transitive use, taking the fire, war, or irascibility as its object.
- Lane · entry 18417
خِبَاءٌ
A covering used to cover oneself; reportedly, also the covering or sheath of a grain ear.
The association of this noun with the present root is qualified in the supplied evidence.
- Mufradāt · row 389
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The printed Lane citation for the Hellfire passage reads “Kur xvii. 99,” while the supplied QAC and Mufradat evidence securely identify the Quranic occurrence as 17:97; the example therefore uses the QAC location.
The assignment of خِبَاءٌ to this root is qualified in the supplied evidence, although its covering sense is explicitly described.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
Lane entry 18418 gives only a qualified attribution of خِبَاءٌ to this root and refers elsewhere for discussion; its lexical definition is therefore supported here by the Mufradat passage, while the root assignment remains uncertain.