Arabic vocabulary
لَبَسَclothed in Arabic
لَبَسَ is how you say “clothed” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Root ل ب س (l-b-s)verb (form I)Pronounced labasa
Meaning of clothed in Arabic
- to put on, or wear, a garment (or a weapon) — the base, literal sense of the verb
- to live with, or keep close company with, a person or people over a long stretch of time — figurative (tropical) extension of 'wearing'
- to feign inattention, or make oneself deaf, toward something — tropical use, literally 'to put one's ear on' it
Classical dictionaries vocalize this form I verb two ways from the same root: labisa, "to put on or wear" a garment or weapon — the sense behind this entry's gloss "clothed" — and labasa (...ʿalā), "to make confused or dubious" (used of a case or affair, including in Qur'anic verses about confounding truth with falsehood). Both trace to the same root notion of covering or mixing things together.
Words from the same root
- أَلْبَسَto clothe or dress someone; to cover or overspread something entirely
- لَابَسَto mix, consort, or hold close social intercourse with someone
- تَلَبَّسَto clothe oneself; to become engaged or involved in an affair
- لَبَّسَto confuse or render dubious, intensively
- لِبَاسٌgarment, clothing; linked to the idea of close mixing or association
- لَبْسٌconfusion, obscurity, or ambiguity in a matter
Common questions
- How do you say "clothed" in Arabic?
- لَبِسَ (labisa) — the classical Form I verb meaning to put on or wear a garment.
- What is the root of لَبَسَ؟
- ل-ب-س (l-b-s), a root centered on wearing and covering, which by extension also gives senses of mixing or confusing things together.
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
فقد استخرج منك داء العجب، وألبست خلعة العبودية
For it extracted the disease of conceit from you, and clothed you in the garment of servitude.
وَأَلْبَسَتْ — and it clothed. wa- = 'and'; past-tense verb 'clothed, dressed'; the '-at' ending marks the feminine subject (the cup/slip) — 'and it clothed (you)'.
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