لقب

• IPA^(key): /la.qab/

لَقَب • (laqab) m (plural أَلْقَاب (ʔalqāb))

1. nickname
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:11:

     […] وَلَا تَلْمِزُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا بِٱلْأَلْقَابِ […]

     […] wa-lā talmizū ʔanfusakum wa-lā tanābazū bi-l-ʔalqābi […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. title
3. surname

• Maltese: laqam
• → Ottoman Turkish: لقب (lakab), լագապ (lakab), լաղապ (lağab) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: lakap
  • → Albanian: llagap
  • → Middle Armenian: լաղապ (laġap)
    • Armenian: լաղապ (laġap)
• → Persian: لقب (laqab)
• → Swahili: lakabu
• → Uyghur: لەقەم (leqem)
• → Uzbek: laqab

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

Denominal verb derived from the noun لَقَب (laqab).

• IPA^(key): /laq.qab/

لَقَّبَ • (laqqaba) II (non-past يُلَقِّبُ (yulaqqibu), verbal noun تَلْقِيب (talqīb))

1. to nickname, to title, to surname

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

• լագապ (lakab), լաղապ (lağab) — Armeno-Turkish

Borrowed from Arabic لَقَب (laqab, “surname, nickname”).

لقب • (lakab) (definite accusative لقبی (lakabı), plural القاب (elkab))

1. surname, family name, last name, a name designating a person as a member of a family
2. nickname, moniker, sobriquet, an invented name for a person used instead of the actual name

• لقب قومق (lakab komak, “to set a nickname to a person”)

• Turkish: lakap
• → Albanian: llagap
• → Middle Armenian: լաղապ (laġap)
  • Armenian: լաղապ (laġap)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lakap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2931
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “lâkab”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 646
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لقب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1080
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cognomen”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 198
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لقب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4189
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lakap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لقب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1637

Borrowed from Arabic لَقَب (laqab).

لقب • (laqab)

1. title
2. nickname

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لقب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

From Arabic لَقَّبَ (laqqaba).

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /laʔ.ʔab/,
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /laɡ.ɡab/,

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لقّب • (laʔʔab) II (present بلقّب (bilaʔʔeb))

1. to nickname

   Synonym: سمّى (samma)

Learned borrowing from Arabic لَقَب (laqab).

• IPA^(key): /la.qab/,

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لقب • (laqab) m (plural ألقاب (ʔalqāb))

1. title
2. nickname

From Arabic لَقَب (laqab) ("nickname, title, surname").

لقب (laqab) m

1. surname, family name, last name

In Tunisia, it was common for individuals to use their father's first name as their surname, rather than a traditional family name.

• Derja.ninja – Tunisian Arabic to English dictionary.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lə.qəb/
• Rhymes: -əb

لَقَب • (laqab) m (Hindi spelling लक़ब)

1. title, appellation, epithet
2. surname
3. nickname