لبى

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Etymology

From the dual of لَبّ (labb, staying, biding) used for emphasis in the phrase لَبَّيْكَ! (labbayka!, here I am, literally your (two) stayings!).

Pronunciation

Verb

لَبَّى (labbā) II (non-past يُلَبِّي (yulabbī), verbal noun تَلْبِيَة (talbiya))

  1. to comply, to follow, to meet
    Synonym: أَجَابَ (ʔajāba)
    لَبَّى النِّدَاءَ
    labbā n-nidāʔa
    He answered the call
    • 2011, خالد الصّوفي, تاريخ العرب في إسبانيا: نهاية الخلافة الأمويّة في الأندلس [History of the Arabs in Spain. The End of The Ummayad Caliphate in Al-Andalus], بغداد [Baghdad], بيروت [Beirut], Freiberg am Neckar: منشورات الجمل [Al-Kamel Verlag], page 14:
      لبى شارلمان طلب الواليين العربيين وسار بجيوشه مخترقاً جبال البرنية
      Charlemagne complied with the demands of the Arab walis and rode out with his troops to pass the Pyrenees
  2. to say لَبَّيْكَ (labbayka, here I am) (like of pilgrims before entering Mecca)

Conjugation

References

  • Drißner, Gerald (2019 August 9) “لَبَّيْكَ (labbaika) – What does it mean”, in Arabic for Nerds
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “لبى”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 515
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لبى”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 84
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لبى”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1142

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لَبَّى (labbā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lab.ba/,
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

لبّى (labba) II (present بلبّي (bilabbi))

  1. (formal) to grant (a request), to meet (a demand)
    رح نضلّ مضربين لحتّى يلبّو مطالبنا.
    rāḥ nḍall muḍribīn la-ḥatta ylabbu maṭālebna.
    We will remain on strike until they meet our demands.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of لبّى (labba)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m لبّيت (labbēt) لبّيت (labbēt) لبّى (labba) لبّينا (labbēna) لبّيتو (labbētu) لبّو (labbu)
f لبّيتي (labbēti) لبّت (labbat)
present m بلبّي (balabbi) بتلبّي (bitlabbi) بلبّي (bilabbi) منلبّي (minlabbi) بتلبّو (bitlabbu) بلبّو (bilabbu)
f بتلبّي (bitlabbi) بتلبّي (bitlabbi)
subjunctive m البّي (alabbi) تلبّي (tlabbi) يلبّي (ylabbi) نلبّي (nlabbi) تلبّو (tlabbu) يلبّو (ylabbu)
f تلبّي (tlabbi) تلبّي (tlabbi)
imperative m لبّي (labbi) لبّو (labbu)
f لبّي (labbi)