1a chest, or box—تَوَبُوتٌ
The ت is not a mark of the feminine gender; the measure is فَعَلُوتٌ, and the word is from التَّوْبُ, because what is taken out of it keeps returning to it.
Or the word is originally تَابُوَةٌ, the و being made sākin and the ة changed into ت.
IAth: it also means the ribs, with what they contain, such as the heart and the liver, as being likened to a chest or box.
According to the Towsheeh, it means the chest, breast, or bosom; or, primarily, the ribs with what they contain, such as the heart, and from this it is applied to a chest or box.
It is also written تَبُوتٌ.
[In the present day it is generally applied to a bier, a coffin, or an oblong case placed over a grave: the plural is تَوَابِيتُ.]
El-Kásim Ibn-Maan says that it is the only word in the Qur'ān over which the dialects of Kureysh and the Anṣār differ: the former pronounce it تَابُوتٌ, the latter تَابُوهٌ.
But IB denies that its last letter is originally ة, the feminine ending; he holds the final ت to be a radical letter, the measure of the word to be فَاعُولٌ, and its proper place to be the article تبت.
He says that the final ت is changed into ه in a case of pause, but not generally, like that of الفُرَات [the Euphrates], in which the ت is not the feminine ending.
I have not deposited in my bosom anything of knowledge that I have lost—مَا أَوْدَعْتُ تَابُوتِى شَيْئًا فَقَدْتُهُ
In the article تبت.
Show Lane's original text
, originally تَوَبُوتٌ , the ت not being the characteristic of the fem. gender, (Z, MF, TA,) of the measure فَعَلُوتٌ , and meaning A chest, or box, from التَّوْبُ , because what is taken out from it continually returns to it: (AAF, IJ, Z, MF, TA:) or originally تَابُوَةٌ ; (S, K; [in the CK تَأْبُوَةٌ ;]) the و being made quiescent, and the ة changed into ت : (S, K:) [in Chald. ?: in Hebr. ?:] it signifies also the ribs, with what they contain, as the heart and the liver &c.; as being likened to a chest, or box; (IAth, TA in art. تبت ;) the chest, breast, or bosom: (A in that art.:) or [primarily] the ribs, with what they contain, as the heart &c.: and [hence] applied to a chest, or box: (Towsheeh, MF, TA:) also written تَبُوتٌ . (K in art. تبت .) [It is generally applied in the present day to a bier: a coffin: and an oblong case that is placed over a grave: the pl. is تَوَابِيتُ .] El-Kásim Ibn-Maan says that it is the only word in the Kur-án in respect of which the dialects of Kureysh and the Ansár differ; the former pronouncing it تَابُوتٌ ; (S;) and the latter, تَابُوهٌ . (S, K.) But IB denies that its last letter is originally ة , the fem. termination; asserting the final ت to be a radical letter, the measure of the word to be فَاعُولٌ , and its proper place in art. تبت : he says that the final ت is changed in a case of pause, but not generally, into ه , as is that of الفُرَات [the Euphrates], in which the ت is not the fem. termination. (L, TA.) You say, مَا أَوْدَعْتُ تَابُوتِى شَيْئًا فَقَدْتُهُ , meaning I have not deposited in my bosom anything of knowledge, or science, that I have lost. (A in art. تبت .)