رَحْبَة expansive in Arabic
رَحْبَة is how you say “expansive” in Arabic.
Root ر ح ب r-ḥ-b. adjective (feminine of رَحْب). raḥbah.
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Meaning of expansive in Arabic
- spacious, wide, roomy, ample the feminine form of رَحْب, agreeing with feminine nouns such as أَرْض 'land' or دَار 'house, abode' — e.g. أَرْضٌ رَحْبَةٌ 'a spacious land'
Example sentence
أَرض الْفطْرَة رحبة قابلة لما يغرس فيها،
The soil of innate disposition is expansive and receptive to what is planted in it.
رَحْبَةٌ expansive
rahba means 'wide, spacious'; the '-un' ending — the description ('…is spacious').
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How it is used
رَحْبَة is simply the feminine counterpart of رَحْب, used with feminine nouns like أَرْض (land), دَار (house), or بِلَاد (country) to describe them as wide and roomy. The same root gives the everyday greeting مَرْحَبًا ('welcome'), literally an invitation to ampleness, and appears in the Qur'an (9:118) in the phrase ضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الأَرْضُ بِمَا رَحُبَتْ, 'the earth became strait to them despite its spaciousness.'
Words from the same root
- رَحُبَ to be, or become, ample, spacious, wide, roomy
- رَحَّبَ to welcome someone, greet with marḥaban
- أَرْحَبَ to make wide or spacious; (to a horse) 'make room, withdraw'
- رَحْبٌ ample, spacious, wide, roomy (masc.)
- رُحْبٌ ampleness, spaciousness, wideness
- رَحِيبٌ ample, spacious; also, of a person, voracious
- مَرْحَبٌ welcome! (greeting formula, lit. 'ample space')
Common questions
- How do you say "expansive" in Arabic?
- رَحْبَة (raḥbah) — spacious, wide, roomy, said of a place such as a house or a stretch of land.
- What is the connection between رَحْبَة and the greeting مَرْحَبًا?
- Both come from the root ر ح ب, meaning 'to be spacious'; مَرْحَبًا literally invites the guest into ampleness, i.e. 'welcome.'
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).