وابل

Derived from the active participle of the verb وَبَلَ (wabala, “to rain heavily”).

• IPA^(key): /waː.bil/

وَابِل • (wābil) m (plural أَوَابِل (ʔawābil) or وَابِلُونَ (wābilūna))

1. heavy rain, downpour

   Synonym: وَبْل (wabl)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:265:

     وَمَثَلُ ٱلَّذِينَ يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمُ ٱبْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاةِ ٱللّٰهِ وَتَثْبِيتًا مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ كَمَثَلِ جَنَّةٍ بِرَبْوَةٍ أَصَابَهَا وَابِلٌ فَآتَتْ أُكُلَهَا ضِعْفَيْنِ فَإِن لَمْ يُصِبْهَا وَابِلٌ فَطَلٌّ

     wamaṯalu llaḏīna yunfiqūna ʔamwālahumu btiḡāʔa marḍāti llāhi wataṯbītan min ʔanfusihim kamaṯali jannatin birabwatin ʔaṣābahā wābilun faʔātat ʔukulahā ḍiʕfayni faʔin lam yuṣibhā wābilun faṭallun

     Mustafa Khattab: And the example of those who donate their wealth, seeking Allah’s pleasure and believing the reward is certain, is that of a garden on a fertile hill: when heavy rain falls, it yields up twice its normal produce. If no heavy rain falls, a drizzle is sufficient.

   • 1954, مُحَمَّد مَهْدِيّ الْجَوَاهِرِيّ [muḥammad mahdiyy al-jawāhiriyy], “اَلرَّاعِي [ar-rāʕī]”, in سَعِيد عَلِيّ [saʕīd ʕaliyy], editor, دِيوَان اَلْجَوَاهِرِيّ [dīwān al-jawāhiriyy], part 2, Lebanon: اَلْمَكْتَبَة الْعَصْرِيَّة [al-maktaba(t) al-ʕaṣriyya], published October 1967, →OCLC, pages 121-122:

     أَبَدًا تَشِيمُ الْجَوَّ تَعْرِفُ / عِنْدَهُ خِصْبًا وَمَحْلَا
     وَتَكَادُ تَغْرِفُ وَابِلًا / حِذْقًا وَتَرْشِفُ مِنْهُ طَلَّا

     ʔabadan tašīmu l-jawwa taʕrifu / ʕindahu ḵiṣban wamaḥlā
     watakādu taḡrifu wābilan / ḥiḏqan wataršifu minhu ṭallā

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2. (figuratively) shower, hail