Root

ر-ب-و

rbw·r-b-w

20 occurrences15 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رِباribā7
رَبَتْrabat4
رَبْوَةrabwah2
أَرْبَىarbā2
رَبَّيَrabbaya2
رابِيrābī1
رِبrib1
رابِيَةrābīah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ر-ب-و

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ6×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • رَبَتْrabat4
    • رابِيrābī1
    • رابِيَةrābīah1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • رَبَّيَrabbaya2
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَرْبَىarbā2

Covers 10 of this root’s 20 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ر-ب-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ر-ب-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ب-و occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 13 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 147 pages — pages 104250, juzʾ 613.

Occurrences · 20 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root ر-ب-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ب-و (rbw) occurs 20 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 15 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ر-ب-و occur?

15 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ب-و (rbw), out of 20 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ب-و?

ر-ب-و (rbw) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رِبا (ribā, 7×), رَبَتْ (rabat, 4×), رَبْوَة (rabwah, 2×), أَرْبَى (arbā, 2×), and رَبَّيَ (rabbaya, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.