غاب

• IPA^(key): /ɣaː.ba/

غَابَ • (ḡāba) I (non-past يَغِيبُ (yaḡību), verbal noun غَيْب (ḡayb) or غَيْبَة (ḡayba) or غِيَاب (ḡiyāb) or غَيْبُوبَة (ḡaybūba) or مَغِيب (maḡīb))

1. to be absent

   Antonym: حَضَرَ (ḥaḍara)

2. to become absent; to vanish, to disappear
3. to set; to go down (of the sun, the moon, etc.)

   الإِمْبْرَاطُورِيَّة اَلَّتِي لَا تَغِيبُ عَنْهَا الشَمْس

   al-ʔimbrāṭūriyya(t) allatī lā taḡību ʕanhā š-šams

   the empire on which the sun never sets

• Maltese: għeb

غَابَ • (ḡāba) I (non-past يَغِيبُ (yaḡību), verbal noun غِيبَة (ḡība))

1. to backbite, to speak badly of an absent person.

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “غاب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 232–233
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غاب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 304
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “غاب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2312
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “غاب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 767
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غاب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 806

From Arabic غَابَ (ḡāba).

• IPA^(key): /ɣaː.b/

غاب • (ḡāb) I (non-past يِغِيب (yiḡīb))

1. to be absent

From Arabic غَابَ (ḡāba).

• IPA^(key): /ɣaːb/,

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غاب • (ḡāb) I (present بغيب (biḡīb))

1. to be absent

   Antonym: حضر (ḥiḍir)