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هَبَط
to descend, to come down, to land /ˈha.ba.tˤa/
verbB1#2156 most common
Also: to drop (as prices), to sink (as morale)
Example sentences
هَبَطَتِ الطَّائِرَةُ.
The plane landed.
هَبَطَ الوَلَدُ مِنَ الجَبَلِ.
The boy came down from the mountain.
هَبَطَتِ الأَسْعَارُ فِي السُّوقِ هٰذَا الأُسْبُوعَ.
Prices dropped in the market this week.
هَبَطَتِ الطَّائِرَةُ فِي المَطَارِ بَعْدَ رِحْلَةٍ طَوِيلَةٍ.
The plane landed at the airport after a long flight.
هَبَطَتْ مَعْنَوِيّاتُ الفَرِيقِ بَعْدَ الخَسَارَةِ.
The team's morale sank after the defeat.
كُلَّمَا هَبَطْنَا فِي الوَادِي ازْدَادَ الجَوُّ حَرَارَةً واخْضَرَّتِ الأَرْضُ حَوْلَنَا.
The deeper we descended into the valley, the hotter the air grew and the greener the land around us.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَهْبِطُ | هَبَطْتُ | سَأَهْبِطُ |
| 2sg | تَهْبِطُ | هَبَطْتَ | سَتَهْبِطُ |
| 3sg | يَهْبِطُ | هَبَطَ | سَيَهْبِطُ |
| 1pl | نَهْبِطُ | هَبَطْنَا | سَنَهْبِطُ |
| 2pl | تَهْبِطُونَ | هَبَطْتُمْ | سَتَهْبِطُونَ |
| 3pl | يَهْبِطُونَ | هَبَطُوا | سَيَهْبِطُونَ |
Word family
هُبُوطdescent, landing
مَهْبِطlanding place, runway
هَابِطdescending; lowbrow
أَهْبَطَto bring down, to lower
Etymology
The verb comes from the Semitic triconsonantal root ه-ب-ط (h-b-ṭ), carrying the core sense of going down or descending. It appears in the Quran in reference to descending from a higher place. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Indo-European root.
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