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لبث

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Arabic

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Root
ل ب ث (l b ṯ)
1 term

Verb

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لَبِثَ (labiṯa) I (non-past يَلْبَثُ (yalbaṯu), verbal noun لَبْث (labṯ) or لَبَث (labaṯ) or لُبْث (lubṯ) or لُبَاث (lubāṯ))

  1. to remain, to stay
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:25:
      وَلَبِثُوا فِي كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَاثَ مِائَةٍ سِنِينَ وَازْدَادُوا تِسْعًا
      They had remained in their cave for three hundred years, adding nine.
  2. to delay
  3. to tarry
  4. to pause
  5. to hesitate

Conjugation

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Noun

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لَبْث or لَبَث or لُبْث (labṯ or labaṯ or lubṯm

  1. verbal noun of لَبِثَ (labiṯa) (form I)

Declension

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