نَبَتَ grow in Arabic
نَبَتَ is how you say “grow” in Arabic.
Root ن ب ت n-b-t. verb (form I). nabata.
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Meaning of grow in Arabic
- to grow, sprout, germinate, vegetate said of a plant, or of a leguminous or other growing thing
- (of land) to produce or give growth to plants, herbage said of the land itself as the agent, نَبَتَتِ الأَرْضُ
- (of a girl's breast) to swell, become prominent figurative (tropical) use, inf. n. نُبُوتٌ
Example sentence
إِذا علقت شروش الْمعرفَة فِي أَرض الْقلب نَبتَت فِيهِ شَجَرَة الْمحبَّة،
When the roots of knowledge take hold in the soil of the heart, the tree of love grows there.
نَبَتَتْ it grows
Past-tense verb 'grew, sprouted'; the '-at' ending marks the feminine subject (the tree).
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How it is used
This is the basic classical verb for organic growth, used of plants and, by extension, of children and other living things. It appears in the Qur'an (e.g. 23:20, with variant readings تُنْبِتُ/تَنْبُتُ; 3:32 and 71:16 with the form-IV verbal noun) and was likened by grammarians to weather-verbs such as مَطَرَتِ السَّمَاءُ 'the sky rained.'
Words from the same root
- نَبَاتٌ plant, vegetation, herbage; whatever God causes to grow from the earth
- نَبْتٌ a plant, herb (syn. with نَبَاتٌ)
- أَنْبَتَ to make a plant grow; (of God) to cause a child to grow (form IV)
- نَبَّتَ to nourish or rear a child; to plant a tree; to sow seed (form II)
- اسْتَنْبَتَ to endeavour to make something grow, e.g. by seed, date-stones, or planting (form X)
- مَنْبِتٌ a place where plants grow; figuratively, one's origin or lineage
- نَابِتَةٌ young offspring newly grown up; also, inexperienced young men
- مَنْبُوتٌ a plant that has been made to grow or germinate
Common questions
- How do you say "grow" in Arabic?
- نَبَتَ (nabata) — used of plants sprouting or germinating, and figuratively of a child growing.
- What does the Arabic root ن-ب-ت mean?
- It carries the sense of growing or sprouting; from it come نَبَاتٌ (plant, vegetation), أَنْبَتَ (to cause to grow), and مَنْبِتٌ (a place of growth, or figuratively one's origin).
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).