ع ب ب

See also: غ ب ب and غ ث ث

Arabic

Etymology

The meaning of gulping or chugging may be just onomatopoeic, as an alternative form غَبَّ (ḡabba) suggests, however the root is aptly described as the Aramaic reflex of the Arabic root ض ب ب (ḍ-b-b) related to sticking, density, tumorosity, see Classical Syriac ܥܒܐ (ʾāḇā, “thicket; spiny-tailed lizard”).

Root

ع ب ب • (ʕ-b-b)

1. related to having it abundant and pouring forth

Derived terms

• Form I: عَبَّ (ʕabba, “to gulp down, to chug”)
  • Verbal noun: عَبّ (ʕabb)
  • Active participle: عَابّ (ʕābb)
  • Passive participle: مَعْبُوب (maʕbūb)
• Form V: تَعَبَّبَ (taʕabbaba, “to drink عَبِيبَة (ʕabība)”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَبُّب (taʕabbub)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَبِّب (mutaʕabbib)

• ع ب ع ب (ʕ-b-ʕ-b)
• عُبَب (ʕubab, “husk tomato”)
• عُبَاب (ʕubāb, “waves or billows of a torrent of water”)
• يَعْبُوب (yaʕbūb, “torrent”)
• عَبِيبَة (ʕabība, “the exudation of certain plants”)
• عُبّ (ʕubb, “breast pocket”)
• أَعَبّ (ʔaʕabb, “of a fat nose”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ب ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 95
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع ب ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1931–1933
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ع ب ب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 684