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وَهَبَ — يَهَبُ — هِبَةً
This verb means to give or bestow. Wāw remains in the perfect, drops from the imperfect يَهَبُ under Rule 2, and the verbal noun is هِبَةً.
The second-person imperative is هَبْ: the imperfect's missing wāw is not reinstated, and the imperfect prefix is removed in forming the command.
لَا تَهَبْ means “do not give”; prohibitive lā precedes a jussive imperfect.

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The Forms وَهَبَ، يَهَبُ and هَبْ

Weak-Initial Roots: Elision, Substitution, Assimilation and Short Paradigms

وَهَبَ — يَهَبُ — هِبَةً
This verb means to give or bestow. Wāw remains in the perfect, drops from the imperfect يَهَبُ under Rule 2, and the verbal noun is هِبَةً.
The second-person imperative is هَبْ: the imperfect's missing wāw is not reinstated, and the imperfect prefix is removed in forming the command.
لَا تَهَبْ means “do not give”; prohibitive lā precedes a jussive imperfect.