Arabic vocabulary
طُوبَىblessed in Arabic
طُوبَى is how you say “blessed” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
Root ط و ب (ṭ-w-b)noun (used as an exclamatory noun, 'blessedness/blessed')Pronounced ṭūbā
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'.
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
- طُوبٌbaked 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
- طَوَّابٌa baker/maker of baked bricks, derived from طُوبٌ
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.
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
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.
From: Returning to God →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.
From: Love and Devotion to God →
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