توبة

Borrowed before Islam from Aramaic תְּתוּבְתָּא (tǝṯūḇtā) in the Judaic circle. Forms doublets of the forms under the Arabic root ث و ب (ṯ-w-b) related to returning.

• IPA^(key): /taw.ba/
  • (Kuwait, Persian Gulf) IPA^(key): /ˈto.bɐ/

تَوْبَة • (tawba) f

1. verbal noun of تَابَ (tāba) (form I)
2. instance noun of تَابَ (tāba)
   • Al-Nawawi

     ولو تاب عن الجميع توبة واحدة بعد جميعها صحت توبته

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. repentance
   • Mark 1:4, Van Dyck version

     كان يوحنا يعمد في البرية ويكرز بمعمودية التوبة لمغفرة الخطايا.

     John baptized in the wilderness, and preached the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

• تَابَ (tāba, “to repent”)
• تَوَّبَ (tawwaba, “to make repentant”)
• اِسْتَتَابَ (istatāba, “to propose that he repent”)
• تَوَّاب (tawwāb, “repentant”)

• Maltese: tewba
• → Armenian: թոբա (tʻoba), թեբա (tʻeba), թուբա (tʻuba)
• → Azerbaijani: tövbə
• → Hausa: tuba
• → Northern Kurdish: tobe
• → Ottoman Turkish: توبه (tevbe)
  • Turkish: tövbe, töbe
• → Classical Persian: توبه (tawba), توبة (towbat) (Classical Persian, archaic)
  • → Gujarati: તવબા (tavbā), તોબા (tobā), તૌબા (taubā)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: तौबा (taubā)

    Urdu: تَوبَہ (tauba)

• → Swahili: toba, kitubio
• → Yoruba: túḿbá
• → Uyghur: توۋا (towa)
• → Uzbek: tavba

• Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 84, page 27
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎^[2] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 22

From Arabic تَوْبَة (tawba).

توبة • (tōba)

1. never

Readings
Classical reading?	tawbat, tawba

توبة • (tawbat or tawba) (Classical Persian)

1. archaic form of توبه

Root
ت و ب
3 terms

• ثوبة (ṯōbe)

From Arabic ثَوْبَة (ṯawba).

• IPA^(key): /toː.be/, [ˈtoː.be]
• IPA^(key): /toː.ba/, [ˈtoː.ba]

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توبة • (tōbe) f (singulative, collective توب m (tōb), paucal أتواب (ʔatwāb), plural تياب (tyāb))

1. a garment, dress, robe

   Synonym: فستان (fustān)

توبة • (tōbe) f (plural أتواب (ʔatwāb))

1. thobe (an ankle-length robe with long sleeves traditionally worn by Palestinian women)