دولاب

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian دولاب (dulâb, dolâb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː.laːb/, /daw.laːb/

Noun

دُولَاب or دَوْلَاب • (dūlāb or dawlāb) m (plural دَوَالِيب (dawālīb))

1. water-wheel
   • a. 896, Ibn ar-Rũmīy, يا سائلي عن مجمع اللذات …‎:

     ومتِّع العين بها مَليَّا – وأطبق الخبزَ وكلْ هنيّا
     طوراً تُرى كفِلكةِ الدولاب – وتارةً كعسجدِ الذُّؤابِ

     And bespin the eye with it for long – layer bread, beget bare throng!
     Lots, looks like a hench waterwheel – strings of gold, clumps for real!

   • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم  (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 208 line 8:

     والقادوس كوز الدولاب

     And bucket is the dipper of a water-wheel.

2. wheel
3. tire
4. gears, machinery
5. closet, cupboard (in Egypt and Levant)

Declension

References

• Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “دولاب”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دولاب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “دولاب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate

Azerbaijani

Noun

دولاب (dolab) (definite accusative دولابی (dolabı), plural دولابلار (dolablar))

1. Arabic spelling of dolab (“closet”)

Declension

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Persian دولاب (dolâb, “closet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːˈlaːb/

Noun

دولاب • (dōlāb) m (plural دَوَاليب (dawālīb))

1. closet

Persian

Etymology 1

Perhaps from دو (do, “two”) +‎ لاب (lâb, “split, cleft; half”).

Pronunciation

Noun

دولاب • (dolâb)

1. (now dialectal) cupboard; closet
3. trick, fraud, machination

Descendants

• → Armenian: դոլաբ (dolab)
• → Azerbaijani: dolab
• → Central Kurdish: (dołab)
• → Northern Kurdish: dolab, dolap, dolav
• → Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)
  • Turkish: dolap
  • → Albanian: dollap
  • → Bulgarian: дола́п (doláp)
  • → Romanian: dulap
  • → Greek: ντουλάπι (ntoulápi)
  • → Ladino: dolap
  • → Serbo-Croatian: dòlāp

Etymology 2

From دول (dul) +‎ آب (âb), or from earlier دلوآب (dalv-âb), from دلو (dalv) + آب (âb), or this is an analogic formation. The vocalism dowlâb is reborrowed from Arabic دَوْلَاب (dawlāb).

Noun

دولاب • (dulâb, dowlâb) (plural دولاب‌ها (dulâb, dowlâb-hâ))

1. (archaic) water wheel; draw-well
   1. (archaic) Persian wheel
   • 1045-1052, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama

     بر آب دولاب های بسیار ساخته اند.

     bar âb dulâb-hâye basyâr sâxta-and.

     ver river they have built many water wheels.

Descendants

• → Arabic: دَوْلَاب (dawlāb)
• → Middle Armenian: դօլապ (dōlap), տոլապ (tolap)
• → Old Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi)
  • Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)