دلب

Arabic

دُلْبَة

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic דּוּלְבָא / ܕܘܠܒܐ (dulbā), from Akkadian 𒄑𒄢𒁍 (^GIŠGUL.BU /⁠dulbu⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dulb/

Noun

دُلْب • (dulb) m (collective, singulative دُلْبَة f (dulba))

1. oriental plane (Platanus orientalis, and Platanus gen. et spp.)
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 8, Art. 1, page 417:

     قال يونيوس يطعم الأترج كتطعيم الكرم وتطاعم التوت في الأترج والأترج في التفاح والتفاح في الأترج ويكون التفاح أحمر بالطبع إن ركب في شجر الدلب والقراسيا يحب التطعيم ويطعم في كرمة

     Junius said that the citron can be inoculated into the vine, and the mulberry into the citron, and the citron into the apple, and the apple into the citron, and the apple is naturally incarned if grafted onto the plane, and the cherry loves inoculation and can be inoculated into a vine.

Declension

Declension of noun دُلْب (dulb)

collective	basic collective triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	دُلْب dulb	الدُّلْب ad-dulb	دُلْب dulb
nominative	دُلْبٌ dulbun	الدُّلْبُ ad-dulbu	دُلْبُ dulbu
accusative	دُلْبًا dulban	الدُّلْبَ ad-dulba	دُلْبَ dulba
genitive	دُلْبٍ dulbin	الدُّلْبِ ad-dulbi	دُلْبِ dulbi
singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	دُلْبَة dulba	الدُّلْبَة ad-dulba	دُلْبَة dulbat
nominative	دُلْبَةٌ dulbatun	الدُّلْبَةُ ad-dulbatu	دُلْبَةُ dulbatu
accusative	دُلْبَةً dulbatan	الدُّلْبَةَ ad-dulbata	دُلْبَةَ dulbata
genitive	دُلْبَةٍ dulbatin	الدُّلْبَةِ ad-dulbati	دُلْبَةِ dulbati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	دُلْبَتَيْن dulbatayn	الدُّلْبَتَيْن ad-dulbatayn	دُلْبَتَيْ dulbatay
nominative	دُلْبَتَانِ dulbatāni	الدُّلْبَتَانِ ad-dulbatāni	دُلْبَتَا dulbatā
accusative	دُلْبَتَيْنِ dulbatayni	الدُّلْبَتَيْنِ ad-dulbatayni	دُلْبَتَيْ dulbatay
genitive	دُلْبَتَيْنِ dulbatayni	الدُّلْبَتَيْنِ ad-dulbatayni	دُلْبَتَيْ dulbatay
paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	دُلْبَات dulbāt	الدُّلْبَات ad-dulbāt	دُلْبَات dulbāt
nominative	دُلْبَاتٌ dulbātun	الدُّلْبَاتُ ad-dulbātu	دُلْبَاتُ dulbātu
accusative	دُلْبَاتٍ dulbātin	الدُّلْبَاتِ ad-dulbāti	دُلْبَاتِ dulbāti
genitive	دُلْبَاتٍ dulbātin	الدُّلْبَاتِ ad-dulbāti	دُلْبَاتِ dulbāti

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دلب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 456
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “دلب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 47
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[3] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 65–67
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[4] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 107
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “دلب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 402