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تناوب

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Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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Root
ن و ب (n w b)
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Pronunciation

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Verb

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تَنَاوَبَ (tanāwaba) VI (non-past يَتَنَاوَبُ (yatanāwabu), verbal noun تَنَاوُب (tanāwub))

  1. (intransitive) to take turns, to alternate
    • 2007, Ilʹjá Frank with Jevgénija Safónova, Denís Nekljúdov, “عناد [Stubbornness]”, in Ара́бский язы́к с Джохо́й - Ме́тод чте́ния Ильи́ Фра́нка (Arábskij jazýk s Džoxój - Métod čténija Ilʹí Fránka) [The Arabic language with Joha - The Reading Method by Ilya Frank] (overall work in Russian):
      اِعْتَادَ جُحَا أَنْ يَتَنَاوَبَ مَعَ زَوْجَتِهِ تَقْدِيمِ الطَّعَامِ إِلَى الْحِمَارِ...
      iʕtāda juḥā ʔan yatanāwaba maʕa zawjatihi taqdīmi ṭ-ṭaʕāmi ʔilā l-ḥimāri...
      Joha used to take turns giving food to the donkey with his wife...
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Etymology 1.2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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تَنَاوُب (tanāwubm

  1. verbal noun of تَنَاوَبَ (tanāwaba) (form VI)
Declension
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References

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  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نوب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN