ل ب س

See also: لبس

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Afroasiatic *(l-)b-s. Cognate with Hebrew ל־ב־ש (“l-b-š”) and Central Atlas Tamazight ⵍⵙ (ls).

Root

ل ب س • (l-b-s)

1. Related to clothing, to wearing clothes
2. Related to confusion

Derived terms

• Form I: لَبِسَ (labisa)
  • Verbal noun: لُبْس (lubs)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَلْبُوس (malbūs)

• Form I: لَبَسَ (labasa)
  • Verbal noun: لَبْس (labs)
  • Active participle: لَابِس (lābis)
  • Passive participle: مَلْبُوس (malbūs)

• Form II: لَبَّسَ (labbasa)
  • Verbal noun: تَلْبِيس (talbīs)
  • Active participle: مُلَبِّس (mulabbis)
  • Passive participle: مُلَبَّس (mulabbas)

• Form III: لَابَسَ (lābasa)
  • Verbal noun: مُلَابَسَة (mulābasa)
  • Active participle: مُلَابِس (mulābis)
  • Passive participle: مُلَابَس (mulābas)

• Form IV: أَلْبَسَ (ʔalbasa)
  • Verbal noun: إِلْبَاس (ʔilbās)
  • Active participle: مُلْبِس (mulbis)
  • Passive participle: مُلْبَس (mulbas)

• Form V: تَلَبَّسَ (talabbasa)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَبُّس (talabbus)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَبِّس (mutalabbis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَلَبَّس (mutalabbas)

• Form VI: تَلَابَسَ (talābasa)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَابُس (talābus)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَابِس (mutalābis)
  • Passive participle: مُتَلَابَس (mutalābas)

• Form VIII: اِلْتَبَسَ (iltabasa)
  • Verbal noun: اِلْتِبَاس (iltibās)
  • Active participle: مُلْتَبِس (multabis)
  • Passive participle: مُلْتَبَس (multabas)

• مَلْبَس (malbas, “piece of clothing”)
• لِبْس (libs, “piece of clothing”)
• لِباس (libās, “piece of clothing”)
• مَلْبَس (malbas, “mode of clothing”)
• لَبُوس (labūs, “piece of clothing”)
• لَبِيس (labīs, “worn; Labeo niloticus”)
• لَبَّاس (labbās, “covering much”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ل ب س”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 81–82
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ل ب س”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1139–1140