س ب ي

Arabic

Etymology

Cognate with Hebrew שׁ־ב־ה (š-b-h).

Root

س ب ي • (s-b-y)

1. related to captivity

Derived terms

• Form I: سَبَى (sabā, “to captivate”)
  • Verbal noun: سَبْي (saby, “capture; captivity; captives”)
  • Active participle: سَابٍ (sābin)
  • Passive participle: مَسْبِيّ (masbiyy)
• Form VI: تَسَابَى (tasābā, “to make each other captive”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَابٍ (tasābin)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَابٍ (mutasābin)
• Form VIII: اِسْتَبَى (istabā, “to captivate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِبَاء (istibāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَبٍ (mustabin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَبًى (mustaban)

• سَابِيَاء (sābiyāʔ, “amniotic sac”); pl. سَوَابِيّ (sawābiyy)
• إِسْبَاءَة (ʔisbāʔa) and أُسْبِيَّة (ʔusbiyya, “streak of blood”); pl. أَسَابِيّ (ʔasābiyy)
• سَبِيّ (sabiyy, “captive”)
• أَسْبَى (ʔasbā, “making more captives”)
• سَبًا (saban) and سَبَاء (sabāʔ) and سَبِيّ (sabiyy, “piece of wood brought by a body of water from one region to another”)
• سَبِيَّة (sabiyya, “pearl brought by a diver”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “س ب ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 282
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “س ب ي”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1048–1049
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “س ب ي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1303
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “س ب ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 551