خب

Arabic

Verb

خَبَّ • (ḵabba) I, non-past يَخَبُّ‎ (yaḵabbu)

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

Conjugation

Verb

خَبَّ • (ḵabba) I, non-past يَخُبُّ‎ (yaḵubbu)

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

Conjugation

Noun

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

Declension

Descendants

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

Persian

Etymology 1

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).

Alternative forms

• خو (xo) (colloquiall)

Conjunction

خب • (xob)

1. so (with the result that)

Adverb

خب • (xob)

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

Interjection

خب • (xob)

1. so, then

Etymology 2

From Arabic خَبّ (ḵabb).

Noun

خب • (xab)

1. (rare) deception, fraud

   Synonyms: فریب (farib), حیله (hile)

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