غ ب یgh-b-y
(س) غَبِيَ يَغْبٰى غَبَاوَةًghabiya yaghbā ghabāwatan: to be dull-witted, to fail to understand something. (No word from this root occurs in the Quran. The meanings previously listed here — غَيْبٌghayb pl. غُيُوْبٌghuyūb (a thing hidden from the senses), غَائِبٌghāʾib (active participle, ism fāʿil), غَيَابَةٌghayābah (lowness, depth) and (form iftiʿāl) اِغْتَابَ يَغْتَابُ اِغْتِيَابًاightāba yaghtābu ightiyāban (to speak of someone's faults behind his back) — in fact belong to the root gh-y-b, as in ﴿الَّذِيْنَ يُؤْمِنُوْنَ بِالْغَيْبِ﴾ (Al-Baqarah 2:3) and ﴿وَلَا يَغْتَبْ بَّعْضُكُمْ بَعْضًا﴾ (Al-Ḥujurāt 49:12); see them under gh-y-b.)