Arabic word sheet
تُرَابٌ
Dust
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ت ر ب
Meaning and usage
Dust
Fine particles of dry earth, raised by the wind or settling on things. This is the most frequent sense.
مَسَحَتْ سَلْمَى التُّرَابَ عَنِ الْكُتُبِ.
Salmā wiped the dust off the books.
Earth, soil
Earth as a material, that of the ground, dry or moist: what one digs, heaps up or plants in.
وَضَعَ الْفَلَّاحُ الْبُذُورَ فِي التُّرَابِ.
The farmer put the seeds in the earth.
Plural
أَتْرِبَةٌ
Word family
What the root means ت ر ب
The root carries the idea of dust and earth: the basic verb is said of a thing on which dust settles. From it come the soil, covering or sprinkling with earth, and the image of poverty, the poor man being pictured as clinging to the ground.
soil, the earth of a place
تُرْبَةٌ
to get dusty; to fall into poverty
تَرِبَ
to cover with earth
أَتْرَبَ
to sprinkle with dust
تَرَّبَ
destitution
مَتْرَبَةٌ
of earth, earthy
تُرَابِيٌّ
Synonyms
moist earth
ثَرًى
Is said of earth only while it is moist; once dry it no longer bears this name, whereas the headword holds in both cases.
dust
غُبَارٌ
It is the fine dust raised in the air or settled on objects, whereas the headword also names the earth of the ground.