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Persian
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian .
Noun
شیب • (šêb, šib)
- slope, declivity, tilt, descend
- bottom, base, lower part
- fundament, bottom of human anatomy
- base of a shield
- wet ground made unequal and rugged by man tramping
Adjective
شیب • (šêb, šib)
- not the full shilling, doolally, barmy
- hasty, precipitate
- Synonyms: تیب (têb), شتابان (šitābān), شتابزده (šitābzada), عجولانه (ʼajulāna)
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: شیو (şiv, şev)
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “شیب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “شیب”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 489