أحب

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.ħab.ba/

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أَحَبَّ • (ʔaḥabba) IV (non-past يُحِبُّ (yuḥibbu), verbal noun حُبّ (ḥubb) or مَحَبَّة (maḥabba))

1. to love, to like

   أُحِبُّكَ ― ʔuḥibbuka ― I love you (to a male)

   أُحِبُّكِ ― ʔuḥibbuki ― I love you (to a female)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:216:

     وَعَسَى أَن تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ وَعَسَى أَن تُحِبُّوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَكُمْ

     waʕasā ʔan takrahū šayʔan wahuwa ḵayrun lakum waʕasā ʔan tuḥibbū šayʔan wahuwa šarrun lakum

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• حَبَّ (ḥabba)

Elative of حَبِيب (ḥabīb, “dear”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.ħabb/

أَحَبّ • (ʔaḥabb)

1. elative degree of حَبِيب (ḥabīb):
   1. dearer; dearest, favourite
      • 1355 CE, Ibn Battuta, edited by Abd Al-Hādī At-Tāzī, رحلة ابن بطوطة المسماة تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار, volume 4, Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, published 1997, →ISBN, page 74:

        وكانت الرابعة وهي ربيبة الوزير عبد الله تسكن في دارها. وهي أحبهن إليّ.

        My fourth wife, who was the daughter-in-law of the Wazir ‘Abdallah, used to live in her own house, and she was my favourite amongst them.

        Translated by H. A. R. Gibb

   2. more agreeable; most agreeable

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أحب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “حب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

أحب (form I)

1. أَحِبُّ (ʔaḥibbu) /ʔa.ħib.bu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
2. أُحَبُّ (ʔuḥabbu) /ʔu.ħab.bu/: first-person singular non-past passive indicative of حَبَّ (ḥabba) and حُبَّ (ḥubba)
3. أَحِبَّ (ʔaḥibba) /ʔa.ħib.ba/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
4. أُحَبَّ (ʔuḥabba) /ʔu.ħab.ba/: first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba) and حُبَّ (ḥubba)
5. أَحِبِّ (ʔaḥibbi) /ʔa.ħib.bi/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
6. أُحَبِّ (ʔuḥabbi) /ʔu.ħab.bi/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba) and حُبَّ (ḥubba)
7. أَحُبُّ (ʔaḥubbu) /ʔa.ħub.bu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
8. أَحُبَّ (ʔaḥubba) /ʔa.ħub.ba/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
9. أَحُبِّ (ʔaḥubbi) /ʔa.ħub.bi/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
10. أَحَبُّ (ʔaḥabbu) /ʔa.ħab.bu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
11. أَحَبَّ (ʔaḥabba) /ʔa.ħab.ba/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
12. أَحَبِّ (ʔaḥabbi) /ʔa.ħab.bi/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)