خب

خَبَّ • (ḵabba) I (first-person singular past خَبِبْتُ (ḵabibtu), non-past يَخَبُّ (yaḵabbu), verbal noun خَبّ (ḵabb) or خِبّ (ḵibb))

1. to subside, to sink in
2. to alight and abode in a depressed tract or ground, in order that one’s place might not be known (like e. g. to avoid claims upon one’s hospitability)
3. to be or become deceitful

خَبَّ • (ḵabba) I (non-past يَخُبُّ (yaḵubbu), verbal noun خَبَب (ḵabab) or خَبِيب (ḵabīb))

1. to trot, to gallop easily
2. to waw, to undulate

خَبّ or خِبّ • (ḵabb or ḵibb) m (plural خُبُوب (ḵubūb))

1. deception, fraud, verbal noun of خَبَّ (ḵabba) (form I)
2. deceiver, cheater
   • 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, 27:69:

     لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ خِبٌّ وَلَا مَنَّانٌ وَلَا بَخِيلٌ

     lā yadḵulu l-jannata ḵibbun walā mannānun walā baḵīlun

     The cheater, the laudicenus and the miser don’t enter paradise.

3. waw, wave

• → Old Armenian: խաբ (xab) (possibly)
• → Persian: خب (xab)

Variation of خوب (xub, “good, well, so”), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭥𐭡 (xūb), from Old Persian (*ʰuvāpa), from Proto-Iranian *HhuHā́pah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HsuHápas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- (“good”) +‎ *h₃épos (“work”). Compare Sogdian (xwp).

• خو (xo) (colloquiall)

خب • (xob)

1. so (with the result that)

خب • (xob)

1. so (in a particular manner)
2. so (in the same manner)

خب • (xob)

1. so, then, okay

Borrowed from Arabic خَبّ (ḵabb).

خب • (xab)

1. (rare) deception, fraud

   Synonyms: فریب (farib), حیله (hile)