Arabic word sheet
رَيْبٌ
Doubt
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ر ي ب
Meaning and usage
Doubt
The state of someone who is not sure of a thing and is unsettled by that uncertainty.
شَعَرَ الْمُدِيرُ بِرَيْبٍ فِي كَلَامِ الْبَائِعِ.
The manager felt a doubt about the seller's words.
Suspicion, mistrust
Doubt mixed with a bad opinion: one thinks a person or a matter is hiding something wrong.
نَظَرَ الْحَارِسُ إِلَى الْغَرِيبِ بِرَيْبٍ.
The guard looked at the stranger with suspicion.
The blows of time
In literary language, followed by a word for time: the reverses and misfortunes that time brings and that unsettle people's minds.
غَيَّرَ رَيْبُ الزَّمَانِ حَالَ الْقَرْيَةِ.
The blows of time changed the state of the village.
Word family
What the root means ر ي ب
The root is about disquiet of mind. Doubt comes from it because doubt takes away one's rest; from it too come suspicion, what looks shady, and mistrusting.
suspicion, something shady
رِيبَةٌ
to disquiet, to give doubts
رَابَ
to become suspect
أَرَابَ
suspicious, shady
مُرِيبٌ
to doubt, to be suspicious
اِرْتَابَ
Synonyms
accusation, suspicion
تُهْمَةٌ
Narrower and stronger: the precise suspicion laid on a person.
Opposites
certainty
يَقِينٌ