شاب

Algerian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic شَابّ (šābb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːbb/

Adjective

شاب (šābb) (feminine شابة (šābba), masculine plural شبان (šubbān) or شباب (šbāb))

1. beautiful

Arabic

Etymology 1

Derived from the active participle of شَبَّ (šabba, “to become a young man, to grow up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːbb/

• Audio

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Noun

شَابّ • (šābb) m (plural شُبَّان (šubbān) or شَبَاب (šabāb), feminine شَابَّة (šābba))

1. young man, youth, adolescent

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.ba/

Verb

شَابَ • (šāba) I, non-past يَشِيبُ‎ (yašību)

1. to be grey-haired, to grow grey hair
2. to become older

Conjugation

Etymology 3

See the root.

Verb

شَابَ • (šāba) I, non-past يَشُوبُ‎ (yašūbu)

1. to mix (بِـ (bi-) with)

   Synonyms: خَلَطَ (ḵalaṭa), خَالَطَ (ḵālaṭa)

   شَابَ اللَبَنَ بِالْمَاءِ

   šāba al-labana bi-l-māʔi

   He mixed the milk with the water.

   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 7, Art. 54, pages 403–404:

     أما العليق فمعروف وأما الورد الجبلي وورد الكلب وهو المعروف عند أهل الطب بالنسرين قال أبو حنيفة الورد الجبلي يشبه الورد ويشبه ذلك بعض سنة العليق وثمره شبيه العنب الدليك وهو أحمر يشبه البسر إلا أن طرفه محدود وفي داخله شبه الصوف ونواره نوار الورد أبيض يشوبه حمرة

     In what concerns the bramble, it is well known, and in what concerns the mountain-rose and the dog-rose, it is well-known with the physicians as nisrīn; Abū Ḥanīfa said the mountain-rose resembles the rose and this resembles a bit the image of the bramble, and the fruit is similar to the dust-vine, it is red and resembles the unripe date, except that its tip is pointed, and in its inner there is a kind of wool, and its blossom is a white rose blossom with an admixture of red.

2. (figurative) to be dishonest, to be untrustworthy (فِي (fī))

   شَابَ فِي قَوْلِهِ ― šāba fī qawlihi ― He was dishonest in his speech

   شَابَ فِي البَيْعِ ― šāba fī l-bayʕi ― He was untrustworthy in the sale (i.e. cheated, defrauded)

Conjugation

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic شَابّ (šābb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːbb/

• Audio

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Noun

شاب • (šābb) m (plural شبان (šubbān) or شباب (šabāb), feminine شابة (šābba))

1. young man, youth, adolescent

Etymology 2

From Arabic شَابَ (šāba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaːb/

Verb

شاب • (šāb) I (non-past يشيب (yšīb))

1. to be grey-haired, to grow grey hair
2. to become older

Conjugation

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic شَبّ (šabb, “vitriol; alum”).

Noun

شاب • (şab)

1. alum, an astringent salt much used in dyeing and tanning
2. coral reef, a reef formed by compacted coral skeletons

Derived terms

Descendants

• Turkish: şap
• → Armenian: շապ (šap)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şap2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4428
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 712
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Alumen”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 53
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شاب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2741
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şap2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1106

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَابّ (šābb).

Pronunciation

Noun

شاب • (šâb)

1. (archaic, literary) youth, young person

   Synonym: جوان (javân)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 263”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:

     بیا و کشتی ما در شط شراب انداز
     خروش و ولوله در جان شیخ و شاب انداز

     biyā u kaštī-yi mā dar šat-i šarāb andāz
     xurōš u walwala dar jān-i šayx u šāb andāz

     Come and hurl our ship into the river of wine;
     Hurl tumult and uproar into the souls of old and young.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

South Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

• شبّ

Etymology

From Arabic شَابّ (šābb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃab/,

• Audio (Jerusalem)

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Noun

شابّ • (šabb, šābb) m (plural شباب (šabāb), feminine شابّة (šābbe))

1. boy, youth, young man

   Synonym: صبي (ṣabi)

Adjective

شابّ • (šabb, šābb) (feminine شابّة (šābbe), common plural شباب (šabāb))

1. young