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ثَوَاب • (ṯawāb) m
- remuneration; reward
- (Islam) sawab; a spiritual merit or reward that accrues from giving prayers or from performance of good deeds and piety
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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 |
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ثَوَاب (
ṯawāb)
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
- → Uyghur: ساۋاپ (sawap)
- → Uzbek: savob
Pronunciation
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sawāḇ |
Dari reading? |
sawāb |
Iranian reading? |
savâb |
Tajik reading? |
savob |
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Noun
ثواب • (savâb)
- 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.
References
- “ثواب”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938
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.