شیب

See also: سيب and سیب

Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian [Term?].

Noun

شیب • (šêb, šib)

1. slope, declivity, tilt, descend
2. bottom, base, lower part
   1. fundament, bottom of human anatomy
   2. base of a shield
3. wet ground made unequal and rugged by man tramping

Adjective

شیب • (šêb, šib)

1. not the full shilling, doolally, barmy
2. hasty, precipitate

   Synonyms: تیب (têb), شتابان (šitābān), شتاب‌زده (šitābzada), عجولانه (ʼajulāna)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: شیو (şiv, şev)
  • Turkish: şiv, şev

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “شیب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “شیب”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 489