talab

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi तालाब (tālāb), from Persian تالاب (tâlâb).

Noun

talab (plural talabs)

1. (Middle East, India, Pakistan) A pond for harvesting rainwater.
   • 2009 September 13, Rick Westhead, “India: Will the tap run dry?”, in Toronto Star‎:

     Harish, whose foundation provides villages with some of the building costs for tankas and talabs, grins as she relates the story.

Anagrams

• Balta, Labat, tabla

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧lab

Noun

talab

1. a pen shell; any member of the family Pinnidae

Anagrams

• balat, latab, tabla

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic طَلَبَ (ṭalaba, “to demand, ask, beg”). Though the Arabic verb can mean “to ask God in prayer”, the general sense “to pray” is not present. In Maltese, it is without doubt a semantic influence from Sicilian prigari (both “to ask” and “to pray”), from Latin precari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.lap/

Verb

talab (imperfect jitlob, past participle mitlub, verbal noun talb or tlib)

1. to ask for; to request; to beg
2. to pray; to be in prayer

Conjugation

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈlab/,
• Hyphenation: ta‧lab

Adjective

taláb (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊ᜔)

1. potently effective; proved effective (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)

   Synonyms: mabisa, nagkabisa, may-bisa

2. effectively cutting through (of cutting tools)

Derived terms

Noun

taláb (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊ᜔)

1. potent effectiveness; effective action (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)

   Synonyms: bisa, epekto

2. cutting action (of cutting tools)

   Synonym: kagat

3. (obsolete) act of blunting a tool
4. (obsolete) root used for dyeing

Anagrams

• balat, tabal, tabla

Uzbek

Etymology

From Arabic طَلَب (ṭalab), compare Turkish talep (“request”).

Verb

talab (plural talablar)

1. request

   Synonym: istak

Declension

Derived terms

• talabgor