أسباب

See also: اسپات, استأت, and اسباب

Arabic

أَسْبَاب • (ʔasbāb) m pl

From Ge'ez አስባብ (ʾäsbab, “guards”).

أَسْبَاب • (ʔasbāb) m pl (hapax legomenon)

guards, guardhouse, watchtower
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 40:36:
  وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يٰهٰمَٰنُ ٱِبْنِ لِي صَرْحًا لَّعَلِّي أَبْلُغُ الْأَسْبٰبَ
  waqāla firʕawnu yāhāmānu ibni lī ṣarḥan laʕallī ʔabluḡu al-ʔasbāba
  And Pharaoh said: O Haman! Build me a tower that I may reach the guardians [of heaven]!

Declension of noun **أَسْبَاب** (ʔasbāb)
plural	basic broken plural triptote
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أَسْبَاب ʔasbāb	الْأَسْبَاب al-ʔasbāb	أَسْبَاب ʔasbāb
nominative	أَسْبَابٌ ʔasbābun	الْأَسْبَابُ al-ʔasbābu	أَسْبَابُ ʔasbābu
accusative	أَسْبَابًا ʔasbāban	الْأَسْبَابَ al-ʔasbāba	أَسْبَابَ ʔasbāba
genitive	أَسْبَابٍ ʔasbābin	الْأَسْبَابِ al-ʔasbābi	أَسْبَابِ ʔasbābi

Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 359
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 483
Margoliouth, David Samuel (1939) “Some Additions to Professor Jeffery’s Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾan”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, number 1, →DOI, pages 58–59