Home Quran Quran roots أ و ب
17 times in the Quran · 4 word forms · rank 442
The Quran root أ و ب ’-w-b
Words built from the root أ و ب ([’-w-b]) appear 17 times in the Quran. The most common is مَآب, “place of return”, which comes 9 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| مَآب | ma’aab | place of return · return | 9 | |
| أَوّاب | awwaab | repeatedly turning · those who often turn | 6 | |
| أَوِّبِ | awwibi | Repeat praises | 1 | |
| إِياب | iyaab | return | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَالْخَيْلِ الْمُسَوَّمَةِ وَالْأَنْعَامِ وَالْحَرْثِ ذَٰلِكَ مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَاللَّهُ عِندَهُ حُسْنُ الْمَآبِ ١٤
الْمَآبِ l-maābi · [the] abode to return
Beautified for people is the love of that which they desire - of women and sons, heaped-up sums of gold and silver, fine branded horses, and cattle and tilled land. That is the enjoyment of worldly life, but Allāh has with Him the best return [i.e., Paradise]. (Surah Ali 'Imran, 3:14)
الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ طُوبَىٰ لَهُمْ وَحُسْنُ مَآبٍ ٢٩
مَآبٍ maābin · place of return
Those who have believed and done righteous deeds - a good state is theirs and a good return. (Surah Ar-Ra'd, 13:29)
رَّبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا فِي نُفُوسِكُمْ إِن تَكُونُوا صَالِحِينَ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ لِلْأَوَّابِينَ غَفُورًا ٢٥
لِلْأَوَّابِينَ lil'awwābīna · to those who often turn (to Him)
Your Lord is most knowing of what is within yourselves. If you should be righteous [in intention] - then indeed He is ever, to the often returning [to Him], Forgiving. (Surah Al-Isra, 17:25)
وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا دَاوُودَ مِنَّا فَضْلًا يَا جِبَالُ أَوِّبِي مَعَهُ وَالطَّيْرَ وَأَلَنَّا لَهُ الْحَدِيدَ ١٠
أَوِّبِي awwibī · Repeat praises
And We certainly gave David from Us bounty. [We said], "O mountains, repeat [Our] praises with him, and the birds [as well]." And We made pliable for him iron, (Surah Saba, 34:10)
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ ٢٥
إِيَابَهُمْ iyābahum · (will be) their return
Indeed, to Us is their return. (Surah Al-Ghashiyah, 88:25)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Sad · 8×
- Surah Ar-Ra'd · 2×
- Surah An-Naba · 2×
- Surah Ali 'Imran · 1×
- Surah Al-Isra · 1×
- Surah Qaf · 1×
Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.