ذَهَاب
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Also written ذهب: ذَهَب (gold)
Highlights
Most common words from the same root
ذَهَبَ in English
Verb · Form I
- to go, to travel
إِلَى أَيْنَ أَنْتَ ذَاهِبٌ؟Where are you going?
- to go away, to leave, to depart
- to disappear, to vanish
- to decline, to dwindle
- to perish, to die, to be destroyed
- to abduct, to steal, to sweep away, to annihilate
- to lead someone, to conduct someone, to take someone along
- to think, to believe, to hold the view, to be of the opinion
فأمّا الْبَرِيد ففيه خلاف وذهب قوم إلى أنه بالبادية اثنا عشر ميلا وبالشام وخراسان ستة أميالAbout the postal route there is disagreement. Folks believed that in the desert it is twelve miles and in Syria and Khorasan six miles.a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān], volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, page 3
- to escape, to slip, to lose sight of, to be forgotten
- to ignore, to skip, to omit
- to prepare to, to be about to
Words from the root ذ-ه-ب
Arabic verbs come in forms; each form's nouns are listed under its verb. See the whole root on one page →
ذَهَبَ
· present يَذْهَبُ
Form I · The plain action
to go, to travel; to go away, to leave, to depart; to disappear, to vanish
مَذْهَب
going
ذَاهِب
مَذْهُوب
ذَهَّبَ
· present يُذَهِّبُ
Form II · Causative or intensive
to gild
تَذْهِيب
verbal noun of ذَهَّبَ
مُذَهِّب
مُذَهَّب
أَذْهَبَ
· present يُذْهِبُ
Form IV · Causative
to cause to go away, to make disappear, to remove, to eliminate, to take away
إِذْهَاب
مُذْهِب
مُذْهَب
تَمَذْهَبَ
· present يَتَمَذْهَبُ
Form IIq
to follow, to adopt (بـ a religion)
تَمَذْهُب
مُتَمَذْهِب
مُتَمَذْهَب
Form
going
ذَهَبَ conjugation
Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.
| Pronoun | Past | Present | Subjunctive | Jussive | Imperative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| أَنَا I | ذَهَبْتُ | أَذْهَبُ | أَذْهَبَ | أَذْهَبْ | — |
| أَنْتَ you (m.) | ذَهَبْتَ | تَذْهَبُ | تَذْهَبَ | تَذْهَبْ | اِذْهَبْ |
| أَنْتِ you (f.) | ذَهَبْتِ | تَذْهَبِينَ | تَذْهَبِي | تَذْهَبِي | اِذْهَبِي |
| هُوَ he | ذَهَبَ | يَذْهَبُ | يَذْهَبَ | يَذْهَبْ | — |
| هِيَ she | ذَهَبَتْ | تَذْهَبُ | تَذْهَبَ | تَذْهَبْ | — |
| أَنْتُمَا you two | ذَهَبْتُمَا | تَذْهَبَانِ | تَذْهَبَا | تَذْهَبَا | اِذْهَبَا |
| هُمَا they two (m.) | ذَهَبَا | يَذْهَبَانِ | يَذْهَبَا | يَذْهَبَا | — |
| هُمَا they two (f.) | ذَهَبَتَا | تَذْهَبَانِ | تَذْهَبَا | تَذْهَبَا | — |
| نَحْنُ we | ذَهَبْنَا | نَذْهَبُ | نَذْهَبَ | نَذْهَبْ | — |
| أَنْتُمْ you all (m.) | ذَهَبْتُمْ | تَذْهَبُونَ | تَذْهَبُوا | تَذْهَبُوا | اِذْهَبُوا |
| أَنْتُنَّ you all (f.) | ذَهَبْتُنَّ | تَذْهَبْنَ | تَذْهَبْنَ | تَذْهَبْنَ | اِذْهَبْنَ |
| هُمْ they (m.) | ذَهَبُوا | يَذْهَبُونَ | يَذْهَبُوا | يَذْهَبُوا | — |
| هُنَّ they (f.) | ذَهَبْنَ | يَذْهَبْنَ | يَذْهَبْنَ | يَذْهَبْنَ | — |
| Verbal noun | ذَهَاب، مَذْهَب |
|---|---|
| Active participle | ذَاهِب |
| Passive participle | مَذْهُوب |
ذَهَبَ in a sentence
Dictionary examples
to go
إِلَى أَيْنَ أَنْتَ ذَاهِبٌ؟Where are you going?
to think
فأمّا الْبَرِيد ففيه خلاف وذهب قوم إلى أنه بالبادية اثنا عشر ميلا وبالشام وخراسان ستة أميالAbout the postal route there is disagreement. Folks believed that in the desert it is twelve miles and in Syria and Khorasan six miles.a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān], volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, page 3
From a fully vowelled text
وَتَصْنَعُ طَوْقَيْنِ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ،And thou shalt make ouches of gold;Exodus 28:13, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
وَمَلاَقِطُهَا وَمَنَافِضُهَا مِنْ ذَهَبٍ نَقِيٍّ.And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.Exodus 25:38, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
اِذْهَبْ قُلْ لَهُمْ: ارْجِعُوا إِلَى خِيَامِكُمْ.Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.Deuteronomy 5:30, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
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