Arabic word sheet
أَصْبَحَ
To become
- Type
- verb
- Root
- ص ب ح
Meaning and usage
To become
To pass into a new state, with no idea of morning left: said of a person or thing whose condition changes. The verb is followed by what one becomes.
أَصْبَحَ الطَّالِبُ طَبِيبًا.
The student became a doctor.
To enter the morning
To reach the time of morning, to come to daybreak: said of someone who has spent the night and sees dawn arrive.
أَصْبَحَ الْمُسَافِرُونَ فَوَاصَلُوا السَّيْرَ.
The travellers reached morning and continued their march.
To be in some state when morning comes
To be in a given situation when morning comes: it tells how the night has left a person or a thing.
أَصْبَحَ الْجَوُّ بَارِدًا.
In the morning the weather was cold.
Word family
What the root means ص ب ح
The root carries the idea of morning, the first part of the day. From it come the morning and dawn, the morning drink, coming to someone in the morning, and this verb: first 'to enter the morning', then simply 'to become'.
morning, dawn
صُبْحٌ
morning
صَبَاحٌ
morning time
صَبِيحَةٌ
to come to someone in the morning
صَبَّحَ
morning drink or meal
صَبُوحٌ
Synonyms
to become
صَارَ
Says 'to become' with no link to any time of day, whereas the headword first named a change found at morning.
Opposites
to enter the evening
أَمْسَى