شبح

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See also: سبح

Arabic

Root
ش ب ح (š b ḥ)
1 term

Etymology 1.1

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ʃa.baħ/, /ʃabħ/

Noun

شَبَح or شَبْح (šabaḥ or šabḥm (plural شُبُوح (šubūḥ) or أَشْبَاح (ʔašbāḥ))

  1. specter, ghost, apparition, phantom, spirit
  2. (dated) blurred, indistinct shape
    Synonyms: شَخْص (šaḵṣ), خَيَال (ḵayāl)
    رَأَيْتُ شَبَحًا مِنْ بَعِيدٍraʔaytu šabaḥan min baʕīdinI saw a shape from afar
  3. nightmare
  4. (slang, Egypt) one of the 1991–1998 models of a Mercedes-Benz
Declension

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ʃa.baħ/, /ʃabħ/

Noun

شَبَح or شَبْح (šabaḥ or šabḥm (plural أَشْبَاح (ʔašbāḥ))

  1. outward appearance, shape, form, figure (of a person)
Declension

Etymology 1.2

Pronunciation

Verb

شَبَحَ (šabaḥa) I (non-past يَشْبَحُ (yašbaḥu), verbal noun شَبْح (šabḥ))

  1. to appear
  2. to stand erect (of a person)
Conjugation

Etymology 1.3

Pronunciation

Noun

شَبْح (šabḥm

  1. verbal noun of شَبَحَ (šabaḥa, to appear; to stand erect) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2.1

Pronunciation

Verb

شَبَحَ (šabaḥa) I (non-past يَشْبَحُ (yašbaḥu), verbal noun شَبْح (šabḥ))

  1. (transitive) to extend, to stretch out
Conjugation

Etymology 2.2

Pronunciation

Noun

شَبْح (šabḥm

  1. verbal noun of شَبَحَ (šabaḥa, to extend, to stretch out) (form I)
  2. extension, width
Declension

Etymology 2.3

Pronunciation

Verb

شَبُحَ (šabuḥa) I (non-past يَشْبُحُ (yašbuḥu), verbal noun شَبَاحَة (šabāḥa))

  1. to be broad or long in the forearms
Conjugation

Etymology 3.1

Pronunciation

Verb

شَبَحَ (šabaḥa) I (non-past يَشْبَحُ (yašbaḥu), verbal noun شَبْح (šabḥ))

  1. to cut, to hew, to pare
  2. to cleave, to split
Conjugation

Etymology 3.2

Pronunciation

Noun

شَبْح (šabḥm

  1. verbal noun of شَبَحَ (šabaḥa, to cut, to hew; to split) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 3.3

Pronunciation

Verb

شُبِحَ (šubiḥa) I (passive-only, non-past يُشْبَحُ (yušbaḥu), verbal noun ?) (passive voice)

  1. to be attached to, addicted to, fond of (an affair)
Conjugation

Libyan Arabic

Pronunciation

Verb

شبح (transliteration needed) I

  1. to see
  2. to watch

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَبَح (šabaḥ).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šaḇah
Dari reading? šabah
Iranian reading? šabah
Tajik reading? šabah

Noun

Dari شبح
Iranian Persian
Tajik шабаҳ

شبح (šabah) (plural اشباح (ašbâh))

  1. figure seen from a distance; silhouette
  2. specter; phantom
    شبح اپراšabah-e operâphantom of the opera