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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَيْب (ʕayb).
Noun
عَیْب • (ʿayb, vulg. ʿayp)
- a fault, flaw, defect
- any thing looked upon as shameful; a shame; a breach of manners
Adjective
عَیْب • (ʿayb, vulg. ʿayp)
- shameful, unmannerly
Descendants
Further reading
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَيْب (ʕayb).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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ayb
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| Dari reading?
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ayb
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| Iranian reading?
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eyb
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| Tajik reading?
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ayb
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Noun
| Dari
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عیب
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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айб
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عیب • ('eyb) (plural عیوب ('oyub))
- defect, fault, blemish
- vice
- disgrace, dishonor
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَيْب (ʕayb).
Noun
عَیْب • ('ayb) m (Hindi spelling ऐब)
- faultiness, unsoundness, imperfection, something amiss, fault, defect, blemish, infirmity, vice, crime, sin; disgrace, infamy
Further reading
- “عیب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “عیب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “عیب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.