حسب

Cognate with Hebrew חָשַׁב (khasháv), Classical Syriac ܚܫܒ, and Egyptian ḥsb.

حَسَبَ • (ḥasaba) I (non-past يَحْسُبُ (yaḥsubu), verbal noun حَسْب (ḥasb) or حِسَاب (ḥisāb) or حُسْبَان (ḥusbān))

1. to calculate, to compute
2. to charge, to debit
3. to credit
4. to take (into account), to take (into consideration), to reckon with
5. to attach (importance)

حَسِبَ • (ḥasiba) I (non-past يَحْسَبُ (yaḥsabu) or يَحْسِبُ (yaḥsibu), verbal noun حِسْبَان (ḥisbān) or مَحْسَبَة (maḥsaba) or مَحْسِبَة (maḥsiba))

1. to assume, to think, to suppose, to believe
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 14:42:

     وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ اللَّٰهَ غَافِلًا عَمَّا يَعْمَلُ الظَّالِمُونَ

     wa-lā taḥsabanna allāha ḡāfilan ʕammā yaʕmalu ẓ-ẓālimūna

     Do not think that God is unaware of what the wrongdoers do.

2. to regard, to consider, to deem

حَسُبَ • (ḥasuba) I (non-past يَحْسُبُ (yaḥsubu), verbal noun حَسَب (ḥasab) or حَسَابَة (ḥasāba))

1. to be highly regarded

حَسْب • (ḥasb) m

1. verbal noun of حَسَبَ (ḥasaba) (form I)
2. reckoning, calculation, computing
3. thinking, opinion, view
4. sufficiency
5. only

   قَرَأْتُ ثَلَاثَةَ كُتُبٍ فَحَسْبُ/وَحَسْبُ/حَسْبُ.

   qaraʔtu ṯalāṯata kutubin faḥasbu/waḥasbu/ḥasbu.

   I've only read three books (and that's all).

   الغالبية العظمى من المسلمين لا يؤمنون فحسب بأن الله رحيم؛ بل يؤمنون بأن الله يدعو البشر إلى الرحمة أيضًا.

   The vast majority of Muslims not only believe that God is merciful; they believe that God calls humans to be merciful as well.

• حَسْبِيَ ٱللّٰهُ (ḥasbiya llāhu)
• حَسْبِيَ ٱللّٰهُ وَنِعْمَ ٱلْوَكِيلُ (ḥasbiya llāhu waniʕma l-wakīlu)

حَسَب • (ḥasab) m (plural أَحْسَاب (ʔaḥsāb))

1. verbal noun of حَسُبَ (ḥasuba) (form I)
2. measure, extent, degree, quantity, amount

   بِحَسَبِ ― bi-ḥasabi ― according to

   عَلَى حَسَبِ ― ʕalā ḥasabi ― according to

3. value
4. high regard, esteem
5. noble descent

Adverbial accusative of حَسَب (ḥasab).

حَسَبَ • (ḥasaba)

1. according to, per, by

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਹਸਬ (hasab)

  Shahmukhi script: حسب (hasab)

حُسَّب • (ḥussab) m pl

1. plural of حَاسِب (ḥāsib)

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “حسب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 377–378
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “حسب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 564
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “حسب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 205

• IPA^(key): /ħa.sab/,

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From Arabic حَسَبَ (ḥasaba, preposition).

حسب • (ḥásab)

1. according to
2. it depends (on)

From Arabic حَسَبَ (ḥasaba, verb).

حسب • (ḥasab) I (present بحسب (boḥsob))

1. to count
2. to charge money

   أحسب كلشي؟

   ʔaḥsob kul-ši

   Shall I charge you for everything?