جبة

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ج ب ب (j-b-b) meaning “to cut”, “to carve a well or cistern”; from the encircling and enclosing of a well or cistern comes the secondary sense “to surround”, “to envelop”, “to en-wrap”, ultimately, from Proto-Semitic *gbb (“to bend, curve, cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒub.ba/

Noun

جُبَّة • (jubba) f (plural جُبَب (jubab) or جِبَاب (jibāb) or جَبَائِب (jabāʔib))

1. jubbah (a type of clothing worn in some Arabic lands traditionally by men)
2. a wrapper, cloak, coat, outer garment
3. (archaic) coat of mail, defensive clothing

Declension

Declension of noun جُبَّة (jubba)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُبَّة jubba	الْجُبَّة al-jubba	جُبَّة jubbat
Nominative	جُبَّةٌ jubbatun	الْجُبَّةُ al-jubbatu	جُبَّةُ jubbatu
Accusative	جُبَّةً jubbatan	الْجُبَّةَ al-jubbata	جُبَّةَ jubbata
Genitive	جُبَّةٍ jubbatin	الْجُبَّةِ al-jubbati	جُبَّةِ jubbati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُبَّتَيْن jubbatayn	الْجُبَّتَيْن al-jubbatayn	جُبَّتَيْ jubbatay
Nominative	جُبَّتَانِ jubbatāni	الْجُبَّتَانِ al-jubbatāni	جُبَّتَا jubbatā
Accusative	جُبَّتَيْنِ jubbatayni	الْجُبَّتَيْنِ al-jubbatayni	جُبَّتَيْ jubbatay
Genitive	جُبَّتَيْنِ jubbatayni	الْجُبَّتَيْنِ al-jubbatayni	جُبَّتَيْ jubbatay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote‎; basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُبَب‎; جِبَاب‎; جَبَائِب jubab‎; jibāb‎; jabāʔib	الْجُبَب‎; الْجِبَاب‎; الْجَبَائِب al-jubab‎; al-jibāb‎; al-jabāʔib	جُبَب‎; جِبَاب‎; جَبَائِب jubab‎; jibāb‎; jabāʔib
Nominative	جُبَبٌ‎; جِبَابٌ‎; جَبَائِبُ jubabun‎; jibābun‎; jabāʔibu	الْجُبَبُ‎; الْجِبَابُ‎; الْجَبَائِبُ al-jubabu‎; al-jibābu‎; al-jabāʔibu	جُبَبُ‎; جِبَابُ‎; جَبَائِبُ jubabu‎; jibābu‎; jabāʔibu
Accusative	جُبَبًا‎; جِبَابًا‎; جَبَائِبَ jubaban‎; jibāban‎; jabāʔiba	الْجُبَبَ‎; الْجِبَابَ‎; الْجَبَائِبَ al-jubaba‎; al-jibāba‎; al-jabāʔiba	جُبَبَ‎; جِبَابَ‎; جَبَائِبَ jubaba‎; jibāba‎; jabāʔiba
Genitive	جُبَبٍ‎; جِبَابٍ‎; جَبَائِبَ jubabin‎; jibābin‎; jabāʔiba	الْجُبَبِ‎; الْجِبَابِ‎; الْجَبَائِبِ al-jubabi‎; al-jibābi‎; al-jabāʔibi	جُبَبِ‎; جِبَابِ‎; جَبَائِبِ jubabi‎; jibābi‎; jabāʔibi

Descendants

• Andalusian Arabic: جبة (gubbah)
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: aljuba
    • Portuguese: aljuba
  • → Old Spanish: aljuba
    • Spanish: aljuba
      • ⇒ Spanish: juba (variant)
        • ⇒ Spanish: jubón (augmentative)
    • → Old Italian: giuppa
      • Italian: giubba (see there for further descendants)
      • → Catalan: gipó
      • → Romanian: șubă
      • → Middle French: jupe
        • French: jupe (see there for further descendants)
          • ⇒ French: jupette
            • → English: jupette
        • → Middle English: jupe (see there for further descendants)
        • → Russian: ю́бка (júbka) (with diminutive suffix)
        • ⇒ Middle French: jupon
          • French: jupon (see there for further descendants)
          • → Middle English: jupon (see there for further descendants)
      • → Middle High German: joppe, schoppe
        • Alemannic German: Tschoope, Schoope (Thurgau, Schaffhausen, Zürich), Tschoop (Graubünden), Tschoop
        • German: Joppe
          • Estonian: jope
      • ⇒ Old Italian: giuppone
        • → Portuguese: gibão
          • → Japanese: 襦袢 (juban)
        • Balto-Slavic languages
          • → Belarusian: жупа́н (župán)
          • → Czech: župan
          • → Lithuanian: žiponas
          • → Polish: żupan
          • → Russian: жупан (župan)
          • → Serbo-Croatian:

            Cyrillic script: жупан

            Latin script: župan

          • → Slovak: župan
          • → Ukrainian: жупа́н (župán)
        • Turkic languages
          • → Chagatai: چپان (çapan), چاپان (çapan)
          • → Kazakh: шапан (şapan)
          • → Kyrgyz: жупан (jupan)
          • → Tatar: жупан (jupan), → Tatar: чапан (çapan)
          • → Ottoman Turkish: چپان (çapan), چاپان (çapan)
          • → Uzbek: chopon
        • → Venetan: zipon, zipón
          • → Byzantine Greek: ζιπόνιν (zipónin), ζιπούνιν (zipoúnin)
            • Greek: ζιπούνι (zipoúni)
            • → Russian: зипун (zipun)
  • → Persian: جبه (jobbe)
  • → Tibetan: ཕྱུ་པ (phyu pa) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: جبه (cübbe) (see there for further descendants)
• → English: jubbah, djibba, djibbah, jibba, jibbah, jubba, jubbeh
• → Malay: jubah
  • Indonesian: jubah
• → Japanese: ジュッバ (jubba)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎^[1] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 107–117
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “جبة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 370–372