طُوبَى blessed in Arabic
طُوبَى is how you say “blessed” in Arabic.
Root ط و ب ṭ-w-b. noun (used as an exclamatory noun, 'blessedness/blessed'). ṭūbā.
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Meaning of blessed in Arabic
- blessed; blessedness Lane's Lexicon does not treat this word under the root ط و ب itself — it cross-refers the entry to art. طيب, where words for goodness and pleasantness are treated, which matches the sense 'blessed'.
Example sentence
طُوبَى لمن أنصف ربّه
Blessed is the one who is fair with his Lord.
طُوبَى blessed
tuba is an exclamation meaning 'blessedness' / 'how blessed' — used to pronounce good fortune on someone.
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How it is used
In Lane's Lexicon طُوبَى appears listed under the root ط و ب alongside words for baked bricks, but only as a pointer ('see art. طيب'); its real semantic home is the root ط ي ب (goodness/pleasantness), not the brick-related root. The other words gathered here under ط و ب — bricks, a greeting phrase, and a brick-maker — are not semantically related to the 'blessed' sense of طُوبَى; they simply share the same consonant skeleton.
Words from the same root
- طُوبٌ baked bricks (syn. آجُرّ); a word of disputed origin (Syrian, Egyptian, or Coptic dialect)
- طَوْبَةً 'perfume' (الطِّيب) — the second word in the greeting phrase أَوْبَةً وَطَوْبَةً said to someone entering or arriving
- طَوَّابٌ a baker/maker of baked bricks, derived from طُوبٌ
More example sentences
لَيْسَ للعابد مستراح إِلَّا تَحت شَجَرَة طُوبَى
For the worshipper, there is no resting place except under the Tree of Tuba.
طُوبَى Tuba
The owner completing 'the tree of Tuba', a name (the blessed tree of Paradise), genitive but a non-bending weak-ending word, so unmarked. It names the one place of the worshipper's rest.
Common questions
- How do you say "blessed" in Arabic?
- طُوبَى (ṭūbā).
- Is طُوبَى related to the root ط و ب meaning 'bricks'?
- Only in spelling. Lane's Lexicon lists طُوبَى under ط و ب but redirects its meaning to the entry for ط ي ب (goodness/pleasantness), which is the true source of its 'blessed' sense.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).