حبة

Arabic

FWOTD – 4 January 2018

Etymology

From the root ح ب ب (ḥ-b-b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħab.ba/

Noun

حَبَّة (ḥabba) f (singulative, collective حَبّ (ḥabb), plural حُبُوب (ḥubūb))

  1. grain
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:261:
      مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُم فِي سَبِيلِ اللّٰهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ أَنْبَتَت سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِي كُلِّ سُنْبُلَةٍ مِئَةُ حَبَّةٍ
      maṯalu allaḏīna yunfiqūna ʾamwālahum fī sabīli llāhi kamaṯali ḥabbatin ʾanbatat sabʿa sanābila fī kulli sunbulatin miʾatu ḥabbatin
      Those who spend their wealth in the way of God are like a grain which grows seven ears, (and) in each ear a hundred grains
  2. pill
    • 2017 December 22, “ضبط نحو ألف حبة مخدرة بطريقها للدخول إلى واسط”, in The Baghdad Post:
      اعلن مدير اعلام شرطة قيادة محافظة واسط، حسن عواد، اليوم الجمعة، ضبط شرطة المحافظة نحو الف حبة مخدرة في سيطرة اللج كانت مخفية بداخل محرك سيارة.
      The Press Director of the Police Headquarters of the Province of Wāsiṭ, Hasan ʿuwād, has announced that on Friday the police of the province has seized around a thousand narcotic pills in the control of a gap hidden in the interior of a car engine.
  3. (in the plural) cereals

Declension

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