ثواب

Arabic
Root
ث و ب (ṯ-w-b)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /θa.waːb/

Noun

ثَوَاب • (ṯawāb) m

  1. remuneration; reward
  2. (Islam) sawab; a spiritual merit or reward that accrues from giving prayers or from performance of good deeds and piety

Declension
Declension of noun ثَوَاب (ṯawāb)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal ثَوَاب
ṯawāb		 الثَّوَاب
aṯ-ṯawāb		 ثَوَاب
ṯawāb
Nominative ثَوَابٌ
ṯawābun		 الثَّوَابُ
aṯ-ṯawābu		 ثَوَابُ
ṯawābu
Accusative ثَوَابًا
ṯawāban		 الثَّوَابَ
aṯ-ṯawāba		 ثَوَابَ
ṯawāba
Genitive ثَوَابٍ
ṯawābin		 الثَّوَابِ
aṯ-ṯawābi		 ثَوَابِ
ṯawābi

Antonyms

Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: savab
  • → Bashkir: сауап (sawap)
  • → Kazakh: сауап (sauap)
  • → Persian: ثواب
    • → Gujarati: સવાબ (savāb)
    • → Urdu: ثواب (svāb)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: ثواب (sevab)
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸਵਾਬ (savāb)
    Shahmukhi script: ثواب (savāb)
  • → Swahili: thawabu
  • → Uzbek: savob

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ثَوَاب (ṯawāb).

Noun

ثواب • (sevab) (plural اثواب)

  1. (religion) divine reward, remuneration (for a good deed)

Descendants

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ثَوَاب (ṯawāb).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.wɑ́ːb]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sä.wɑ́ːb]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sä.wɔ́ːb̥]

Readings
Classical reading? sawāḇ
Dari reading? sawāb
Iranian reading? savâb
Tajik reading? savob

Noun

ثواب • (savâb)

  1. divine reward, remuneration (for a good deed)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 422”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      آفرین بر دل نرم تو که از بهر ثواب
      کشتهٔ غمزهٔ خود را به نماز آمده‌ای
      āfarīn bar dil-i narm-i tu ki az bahr-i sawāb
      kušta-yi ğamza-yi xwad rā ba namāz āmada'ī
      Praise upon your tender heart! For the sake of divine reward
      You have begun to pray for those who were killed by your flirtatiousness.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants
  • → Gujarati: સવાબ (savāb)

Sindhi

Etymology

From Classical Persian ثواب (sawāb).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [savɑːb]

Noun

ثواب • (savābu) m (Devanagari सवाबु)

  1. rectitude, merit, virtue

References
  • “ثواب”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ثواب (sawāb), from Arabic ثَوَاب (ṯawāb).

Pronunciation

Noun

ثَواب • (savāb) m (Hindi spelling सवाब)

  1. requital, reward
  2. good deed

References
  • “ثواب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “ثواب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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