صبي

Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.bijj/
• Rhymes: -ijj

Noun

صَبِيّ • (ṣabiyy) m (dual صَبِيَّانِ (ṣabiyyāni), plural صِبْيَة (ṣibya) or صِبْيَان (ṣibyān) or أَصْبٍ (ʔaṣbin) or أَصْبِيَة (ʔaṣbiya), feminine صَبِيَّة (ṣabiyya))

1. a young male human, a boy-child

   Synonyms: غُلَام (ḡulām), فَتًى (fatan), شَابّ (šābb)

   Coordinate terms: صَبِيَّة (ṣabiyya), فَتَاة (fatāh), شَابَّة (šābba), (archaic) جَارِيَة (jāriya)

   1. a boy-servant; a slave-boy
2. (obsolete) an unweaned male human child, a suckling

   Synonym: رَضِيع (raḍīʕ, “nursling”)

3. (rare) a protrusion; a projection
4. (rare) the pupil of an eye

   Synonyms: بُؤْبُؤ (buʔbuʔ), حَدَقَة (ḥadaqa)

Declension

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: صبي (ṣibi)
• South Levantine Arabic: صبي (ṣabi)
• Maltese: sabi
• → Bashkir: сабый (sabıy, “small child”)
• → Kazakh: сәби (säbi)
• → Uzbek: sabiy

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “صبي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “صبي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤub.biː/

Verb

صُبِّي • (ṣubbī) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular active imperative of صَبَّ (ṣabba)

Gulf Arabic

Etymology 1

From the diminutive of Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤbaj/

Noun

صْبَيْ • (ṣbayy) m (dual صْبَيّين (ṣbayyēn), plural صْبَيّان (ṣbayyān))

1. boy

   Synonym: ولد (walad)

   Coordinate terms: بنية (bnayya), بنت (bint)

Etymology 2

From Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˤɪ.bi/

Noun

صِبي • (ṣibi) m (dual صِبيّين (ṣibīyēn), plural صبيان (ṣibyān))

1. male servant of any age

   Synonym: دريول (drēwil)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.bi/,

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Noun

صبي • (ṣabi) m (plural صبيان (ṣibyān), feminine صبيّة (ṣabiyye))

1. boy, young man

See also

• ولد (walad, “boy; child”)