تاب

Denominal verb of تَوْبَة (tawba). Doublet of ثَابَ (ṯāba).

• IPA^(key): /taː.ba/

تَابَ • (tāba) I (non-past يَتُوبُ (yatūbu), verbal noun تَوْب (tawb) or تَوْبَة (tawba) or مَتَاب (matāb))

1. to repent, to be penitent

   Synonyms: ثَابَ (ṯāba), رَجَعَ (rajaʕa), آبَ (ʔāba), أَنَابَ (ʔanāba), نَابَ (nāba)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:143:

     فَلَمَّآ أَفَاقَ قَالَ سُبۡحَـٰنَكَ تُبۡتُ إِلَيۡكَ وَأَنَا۠ أَوَّلُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ

     falammā ʔafāqa qāla subḥānaka tubtu ʔilayka waʔana ʔawwalu l-muʔminīna

     And when he (Moses) awoke, he said: "Exalted are You! I have repented to You, and I am the first of believers!"

2. to accept repentance
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:17:

     إِنَّمَا ٱلتَّوْبَةُ عَلَى اللَّهِ لِلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ ٱلسُّوءَ بِجَهَالَةٍ ثُمَّ يَتُوبُونَ مِن قَرِيبٍ فَأُولَٰئِكَ يَتُوبُ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا

     ʔinnamā t-tawbatu ʕalā l-lahi lillaḏīna yaʕmalūna s-sūʔa bijahālatin ṯumma yatūbūna min qarībin faʔūlāʔika yatūbu l-lahu ʕalayhim wakāna l-lahu ʕalīman ḥakīman

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• تَوَّاب (tawwāb)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *tāpás, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Related to Old Armenian տապ (tap, “heat”), an Iranian borrowing.

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تاب • (tâb)

1. heat, warmth
2. glow, radiance
3. burning, inflaming, illuminating

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تاب • (tâb)

1. endurance, power

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تاب • (tâb)

1. swing (hanging seat)

تاب • (tâb)

1. present stem form of تافتن (tâftan)

• تابش (tabeš)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تاب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul