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شَعْب

tribe

Noun · masculineRoot ش-ع-ب

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Highlights

Plural
شُعُوب
Verbal noun of
شَعَبَ
to gather

Most common words from the same root

Adjective
شَعْبِيّ
national
Noun
شُعْبَة
branch
Verb · Form I
شَعَبَ
to gather
Noun
شِعْبَة
reef
Verb · Form I
شَعِبَ
to be broad in the shoulders
Verb · Form II
شَعَّبَ
to split

شَعْب in English

Noun · masculine

Verbal noun of شَعَبَ (to gather): the act or idea of the verb.

  1. tribe, race
    يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِنْ ذَكَرٍ وَأُنْثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُواO humanity! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may ˹get to˺ know one another.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:13
  2. a people, nation
  3. distance
  4. split, cleft
  5. gathering, uniting
  6. mending
  7. dispersing
  8. splitting, cutting
  9. spoiling, injury
  10. getting separated
  11. leaving one's people
  12. appearance (act of appearing)

Words from the root ش-ع-ب

Arabic verbs come in forms; each form's nouns are listed under its verb. See the whole root on one page →

شَعَبَ · present يَشْعَبُ
Form I · The plain action

to gather, unite; to mend; to disperse

شَعْب
Verbal noun
tribe
شَاعِب
Active participle
مَشْعُوب
Passive participle
شَعِبَ · present يَشْعَبُ
Form I · The plain action

to be broad in the shoulders; to have a large space between the horns

شَعَب
Verbal noun
أَشْعَب
Active participle
شَعَّبَ · present يُشَعِّبُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to split, divide, ramify; to beat the tail to the right and left

تَشْعِيب
Verbal noun
مُشَعِّب
Active participle
مُشَعَّب
Passive participle
تَشَعَّبَ · present يَتَشَعَّبُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II

to diverge, to branch, to fork

تَشَعُّب
Verbal noun
مُتَشَعِّب
Active participle
مُتَشَعَّب
Passive participle
شَعْبِيّ
Adjective
national
شُعْبَة
Noun · f.
branch
شِعْبَة
Noun · f.
reef
شِعْب
Noun · m.
mountain path
شَعْبَوِيَّة
Noun · f.
populism
شَعْبَوِيّ
Adjective
populist
اِسْتِفْتَاء شَعْبِيّ
Noun · m.
referendum

شَعْب: plural and other forms

Singularشَعْب
Pluralشُعُوب

شَعْب in a sentence

Dictionary examples

tribe

يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِنْ ذَكَرٍ وَأُنْثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُواO humanity! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may ˹get to˺ know one another.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:13

From a fully vowelled text

عَزُّوا، عَزُّوا شَعْبِي، يَقُولُ إِلهُكُمْ.Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.Isaiah 40:1, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
أُوفِي نُذُورِي لِلرَّبِّ مُقَابِلَ شَعْبِهِ،I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,Psalms 116:18, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
فَأَمَرَ يَشُوعُ عُرَفَاءَ الشَّعْبِ قَائِلاً:Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,Joshua 1:10, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV

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