خب

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See also: خت, چت, چپ, جب, and حب

Arabic

Root
خ ب ب (ḵ b b)
2 terms

Verb

خَبَّ (ḵabba) I (first-person singular past خَبِبْتُ (ḵabibtu), non-past يَخَبُّ (yaḵabbu), verbal noun خَبّ (ḵabb) or خِبّ (ḵibb))

  1. to subside, to sink in
  2. to alight and abode in a depressed tract or ground, in order that one’s place might not be known (like e. g. to avoid claims upon one’s hospitability)
  3. to be or become deceitful

Conjugation

Verb

خَبَّ (ḵabba) I (non-past يَخُبُّ (yaḵubbu), verbal noun خَبَب (ḵabab) or خَبِيب (ḵabīb))

  1. to trot, to gallop easily
  2. to waw, to undulate

Conjugation

Noun

خَبّ or خِبّ (ḵabb or ḵibbm (plural خُبُوب (ḵubūb))

  1. deception, fraud, verbal noun of خَبَّ (ḵabba) (form I)
  2. deceiver, cheater
    • 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, 27:69:
      لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ خِبٌّ وَلَا مَنَّانٌ وَلَا بَخِيلٌ
      lā yadḵulu l-jannata ḵibbun walā mannānun walā baḵīlun
      The cheater, the laudicenus and the miser don’t enter paradise.
  3. waw, wave

Declension

Descendants

  • Old Armenian: խաբ (xab) (possibly)
  • Persian: خب (xab)

Persian

Etymology 1

Variation of خوب (xub, good, well, so), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭥𐭡 (xūb), from Old Persian (*ʰuvāpa), from Proto-Iranian *HhuHā́pah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HsuHápas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- (good) +‎ *h₃épos (work). Compare Sogdian (xwp).

Alternative forms

  • خو (xo) (colloquiall)

Conjunction

خب (xob)

  1. so (with the result that)

Adverb

خب (xob)

  1. so (in a particular manner)
  2. so (in the same manner)

Interjection

خب (xob)

  1. so, then, okay

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic خَبّ (ḵabb).

Noun

خب (xab)[1]

  1. (rare) deception, fraud
    Synonyms: فریب (farib), حیله (hile)

References

  1. ^ Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “խէպ”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 189a