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Arabic
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
أَسْبَاب • (ʔasbāb) m pl
- plural of سَبَب (sabab)
Etymology 2
From Ge'ez አስባብ (ʾäsbab, “guards”).
Pronunciation
Noun
أَسْبَاب • (ʔasbāb) m pl (hapax)
- guards, guardhouse, watchtower
609–632 CE, Qur'an, 40:36:وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يٰهٰمَٰنُ ٱِبْنِ لِي صَرْحًا لَّعَلِّي أَبْلُغُ الْأَسْبٰبَ- waqāla firʕawnu yāhāmānu ibni lī ṣarḥan laʕallī ʔabluḡu l-ʔasbāba
- And Pharaoh said: O Haman! Build me a tower that I may reach the guardians !
Declension
Declension of noun أَسْبَاب (ʔasbāb)
Plural
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basic broken plural triptote
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Indefinite
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Definite
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Construct
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Informal
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أَسْبَاب ʔasbāb
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الْأَسْبَاب al-ʔasbāb
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أَسْبَاب ʔasbāb
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Nominative
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أَسْبَابٌ ʔasbābun
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الْأَسْبَابُ al-ʔasbābu
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أَسْبَابُ ʔasbābu
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Accusative
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أَسْبَابًا ʔasbāban
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الْأَسْبَابَ al-ʔasbāba
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أَسْبَابَ ʔasbāba
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Genitive
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أَسْبَابٍ ʔasbābin
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الْأَسْبَابِ al-ʔasbābi
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أَسْبَابِ ʔasbābi
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References
- Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 359
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 483
- Margoliouth, David Samuel (1939) “Some Additions to Professor Jeffery’s Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾan”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, number 1, →DOI, pages 58–59