تاب

Denominal verb of تَوْبَة‎ (tawba). Doublet of ثَابَ‎ (ṯāba).

• IPA^(key): /taː.ba/

تَابَ • (tāba) I, non-past يَتُوبُ‎‎ (yatūbu)

1. to repent, to be penitent [+ إِلَى‎ (object) = to God] [+ عَنْ‎ (object) = sin] or [+ مِنْ‎ (object) = sin]

   Synonyms: ثَابَ‎ (ṯāba), رَجَعَ‎ (rajaʕa), آبَ‎ (ʔāba), أَنَابَ‎ (ʔanāba), نَابَ‎ (nāba)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:143:

     ‏فَلَمَّآ أَفَاقَ قَالَ سُبۡحَـٰنَكَ تُبۡتُ إِلَيۡكَ وَأَنَا۠ أَوَّلُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ‎

     falammā ʔafāqa qāla subḥānaka tubtu ʔilayka waʔana ʔawwalu l-muʔminīna

     And when he (Moses) awoke, he said: "Exalted are You! I have repented to You, and I am the first of believers!"

2. to accept repentance [+ عَلَى‎ (object)]
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:17:

     ‏إِنَّمَا ٱلتَّوْبَةُ عَلَى اللَّهِ لِلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ ٱلسُّوءَ بِجَهَالَةٍ ثُمَّ يَتُوبُونَ مِن قَرِيبٍ فَأُولَٰئِكَ يَتُوبُ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا‎

     ʔinnamā t-tawbatu ʕalā l-lahi lillaḏīna yaʕmalūna s-sūʔa bijahālatin ṯumma yatūbūna min qarībin faʔūlāʔika yatūbu l-lahu ʕalayhim wakāna l-lahu ʕalīman ḥakīman

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• تَوَّاب‎ (tawwāb)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *tāpás, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Related to Old Armenian տապ (tap, “heat”), an Iranian borrowing.

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تاب • (tâb)

1. heat, warmth
2. glow, radiance
3. burning, inflaming, illuminating

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تاب • (tâb)

1. endurance, power

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تاب • (tâb)

1. swing (hanging seat)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “تاب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul