Quranic root
خبز
kh · b · z
The root centers on striking or beating something with the hand.
From this motion, the lexicon connects the root with kneading and baking bread, and with related applications such as an animal striking the ground and figurative forceful driving.
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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.
خُبْزٌ
khubzun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
Bread; the familiar baked food made from dough.
In the Quran occurrence, it denotes bread in the expression about carrying it above one's head.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:36word 18
“bread”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 12:36خُبْزًۭاbread
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 18 Classical meanings
خَبَزَ
To make bread by kneading flour into dough and baking it.
The process may involve baking in hot ashes or in an oven.
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تَخَبَّزَ
To make, knead, and bake bread for oneself.
Derived Form V usage, with a reflexive or self-directed sense.
- Lane · entry 18348
خَبَزَ القَوْمَ
To feed a people or company with bread.
The construction takes the people or company as the object being supplied with bread.
- Lane · entry 18348
خَبَزَ
To beat or strike a person or thing; of a camel, to strike the ground or herbage with its forefoot or forefeet.
This is a figurative or animal application distinct from making bread.
- Lane · entry 18348
اِخْتَبَزَ
To have bread baked or to order its baking.
Derived Form VIII usage describing the procuring or ordering of bread-making.
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خَبْزٌ
Forceful driving.
A figurative use likening the manner of a hard driver to the action of a baker.
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خُبْزٌ
Sweet herbage regarded figuratively as the bread or food of camels.
Occurs in the expression describing sweet herbage as the camels' bread.
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خُبْزَةٌ
A piece or cake of dough or bread baked in ashes or a hearth; a bread cake or lump.
Especially a portion placed in a مَلّة until thoroughly baked; also applied to a قرص or قرصة.
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خُبْزَةٌ
A large serving of tharīd, made from crumbled or broken bread moistened with broth; some authorities apply the term to flesh-meat.
The flesh-meat interpretation is explicitly attributed as an alternative.
- Lane · entry 18352
خَبِيزٌ
Bread that has been kneaded and baked, whatever the grain used.
A derived nominal referring to the prepared product rather than the act of baking.
- Lane · entry 18353
خَبِيزٌ
Bread crumbled or broken and moistened with broth, that is, tharīd.
A specialized culinary use of the derived noun.
- Lane · entry 18353
خَبِيزٌ
A vulgar term for خَبِيصَةٌ, a sweet dish.
The usage is explicitly characterized as colloquial or vulgar.
- Lane · entry 18353
خِبَازَةٌ
The making or baking of bread; the baker's trade or occupation.
Covers both the activity of making bread and its occupational practice.
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خَبَّازٌ
A baker, one whose occupation is making bread.
An occupational noun for the maker of bread.
- Lane · entry 18356
خُبَّازٌ
A well-known leguminous plant of the mallow group, with broad leaves and a round fruit.
The entry identifies it with kinds of mallow or Jew's mallow and records differing botanical identifications.
- Lane · entry 18357
خَابِزٌ
A person possessing bread.
An active-participle pattern denoting possession, parallel to terms for one possessing dates or milk.
- Lane · entry 18361
مَخْبَزٌ
An oven.
A place or apparatus used for baking bread.
- Lane · entry 18362
مَخْبَزَةٌ
A place where bread is made; a bakery.
The plural is مَخَابِزُ.
- Lane · entry 18363
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic evidence attests only the noun خُبْزٌ meaning bread; the verb, derived forms, figurative uses, plant name, and place-names are broader Classical Arabic evidence rather than additional Quranic senses.