توبة

See also: بوته and توبہ

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed before Islam from Aramaic תְּתוּבְתָּא (tǝṯūḇtā) in the Judaic circle. Forms doublets of the forms under the Arabic root ث و ب (ṯ-w-b) related to returning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taw.ba/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈto.bɐ/

Noun

تَوْبَة • (tawba) f

1. verbal noun of تَابَ (tāba) (form I)
2. instance noun of تَابَ (tāba)
   • Al-Nawawi

     ولو تاب عن الجميع توبة واحدة بعد جميعها صحت توبته

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. repentance
   • Mark 1:4, Van Dyck version

     كان يوحنا يعمد في البرية ويكرز بمعمودية التوبة لمغفرة الخطايا.

     John baptized in the wilderness, and preached the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

Declension

Declension of noun تَوْبَة (tawba)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَوْبَة tawba	التَّوْبَة at-tawba	تَوْبَة tawbat
Nominative	تَوْبَةٌ tawbatun	التَّوْبَةُ at-tawbatu	تَوْبَةُ tawbatu
Accusative	تَوْبَةً tawbatan	التَّوْبَةَ at-tawbata	تَوْبَةَ tawbata
Genitive	تَوْبَةٍ tawbatin	التَّوْبَةِ at-tawbati	تَوْبَةِ tawbati

Derived terms

• تَابَ (tāba, “to repent”)
• تَوَّبَ (tawwaba, “to make repentant”)
• اِسْتَتَابَ (istatāba, “to propose that he repent”)
• تَوَّاب (tawwāb, “repentant”)

Descendants

• → Hausa: tuba
• → Persian: توبه
  • → Hindi: तौबा (taubā)
  • → Urdu: توبہ
• → Swahili: kitubio
• → Yoruba: tuba

References

• Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 84, page 27
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎^[2] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 22

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Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

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Adverb

توبة • (tōba)

1. never