تَّابُوت

taAbuwtN tAbwt , originally tawabuwtN , the t not being the characteristic of the fem. gender, (Z, MF, TA,) of the measure faEaluwtN , and meaning A chest, or box, from Alt~awobu , because what is taken out from it continually returns to it: (AAF, IJ, Z, MF, TA:) or originally taAbuwapN ; (S, K; [in the CK taA^obuwapN ;]) the w being made quiescent, and the p changed into t : (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. tbt ;) 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 tabuwtN . (K in art. tbt .) [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 tawaAbiytu .] 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 taAbuwtN ; (S;) and the latter, taAbuwhN . (S, K.) But IB denies that its last letter is originally p , the fem. termination; asserting the final t to be a radical letter, the measure of the word to be faAEuwlN , and its proper place in art. tbt : he says that the final t is changed in a case of pause, but not generally, into h , as is that of AlfuraAt [the Euphrates], in which the t is not the fem. termination. (L, TA.) You say, maA A^awodaEotu taAbuwtiY $ayoy^FA faqadotuhu , meaning I have not deposited in my bosom anything of knowledge, or science, that I have lost. (A in art. tbt .)