ثَوَاب reward in Arabic
ثَوَاب is how you say “reward” in Arabic.
Root ث و ب th-w-b. noun. thawāb.
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Meaning of reward in Arabic
- reward, recompense often the recompense granted for a good deed
- requital what comes back to a person for an action
Example sentence
فَمن ثَوَاب الْحَسَنَة الْحَسَنَة بعْدَهَا،
For among the rewards of a good deed is a good deed after it,
ثَوَابِ the rewards
thawab means 'reward'; heading an 'of…' phrase with the next word; the noun after 'min'.
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How it is used
Thawāb carries the root's core sense of returning: a reward is what comes back to someone for what they have done. It is common in religious and moral contexts for the recompense earned by good deeds.
Words from the same root
- ثَابَ to return, come back
- ثَوْبٌ a garment, robe
- تَثْوِيب a repeated call to prayer
More example sentences
مالم يُخرجهُ ذَلِكَ إِلَى إِسْقَاط الْأَمر وَالنَّهْي وَالثَّوَاب وَالْعِقَاب والوعد والوعيد
As long as it does not lead him to dismiss command and prohibition, reward and punishment, promise and warning.
وَالثَّوَابِ and reward
Another coordinated genitive in the list, paired with its opposite 'punishment'. The near-rhyme of the two words (thawab, iqab) is deliberate — reward and penalty set side by side as a single idea.
فَيَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا لَوْ أَدْخَلْتَنَا النَّارَ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُرِيَنَا مَا أَرَيْتَنَا مِنْ ثَوَابِ مَا أَعْدَدْتَ لِأَوْلِيَائِكَ كَانَ أَهْوَنَ عَلَيْنَا
They will say: Our Lord, if You had put us into the Fire before showing us what You showed us of the reward You prepared for Your close ones, it would have been easier for us.
ثَوَابِ reward of
A noun, 'reward', heading a possessive pairing with the clause after it, 'reward of what You prepared'. As the leading noun it takes no 'the' and leans onto what it owns; the 'of' before it has set its ending.
فَالْيَوْمَ أُذِيقُكُمْ أَلِيمَ عِقَابِي مَعَ مَا حَرَمْتُكُمْ مِنْ جَزِيلِ ثَوَابِي
So today I will let you taste My painful punishment along with what I have deprived you of My generous reward.
ثَوَابِي My reward
A noun, 'My reward', with 'My' attached as possessor, governed by the 'of' before it. The suffix marks the reward as God's own, the bounty they forfeited.
يَعْنِي أَنَّهُ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالصَّوْمُ لِوَجْهِ اللهِ تَعَالَى فَلَا ثَوَابَ لَهُ
This means that if the prayer and fasting are not done for the sake of Allah, then there is no reward for them.
ثَوَابَ reward
A noun, 'reward', denied outright by the absolute 'no' before it, carrying the ending that 'no' forces, the form meaning 'no reward whatever'. Arabic marks total denial of a thing with this construction.
وَلَا ثَوَابَ لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ
And there is no reward for him in the Hereafter.
ثَوَابَ reward
The noun denied, 'reward', which under this 'there is no...' frame takes a special ending that strengthens the denial to 'no reward at all'. It stands indefinite.
Common questions
- How do you say "reward" in Arabic?
- ثَوَاب (thawāb).
- What root does ثواب come from?
- The root ث و ب (th-w-b), whose basic sense is 'to return' — thawāb is what returns to a person for their deeds.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).