دب

• IPA^(key): /dab.ba/

دَبَّ • (dabba) I (non-past يَدِبُّ (yadibbu), verbal noun دَبّ (dabb) or دَبِيب (dabīb))

1. to creep, to crawl
2. to proceed, to advance, to move slowly
3. to go on all fours
4. to enter
5. to steal, to creep
6. to spread, to fill, to pervade, to invade
7. to gain ground

• دَابَّة (dābba, “beast of burden”)
• دَبَّاب (dabbāb, “crawling”)
• دَبَّابَة (dabbāba, “tank”)
• دَبِيب (dabīb, “crawling, influx, reptile”)
• دُوَيْبَّة (duwaybba, “tiny animal, insect”)
• مَدَبّ (madabb)
• مُدَبَّب (mudabbab, “pointed”)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Proto-Semitic *dubb- (“bear”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *dab- (“big animal”). Compare Aramaic דבא (debbā), Hebrew דוב (dov) and Akkadian dabûm.

• IPA^(key): /dubb/

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دُبّ • (dubb) m (plural أَدْبَاب (ʔadbāb) or دِبَبَة (dibaba) or دِبَاب (dibāb), feminine دُبَّة (dubba))

1. (zoology) bear

   (astronomy) الدُّبّ الْأَصْغَر (ad-dubb al-ʔaṣḡar, “Ursa Minor”)

   (astronomy) الدُّبّ الْأَكْبَر (ad-dubb al-ʔakbar, “Ursa Major”)

• دُبِّيّ (dubbiyy, “ursine, bearly”)

• Gulf Arabic: دب (dubb)
• Maltese: debb
• Moroccan Arabic: دب (dubb)
• → Swahili: dubu

• IPA^(key): /dabb/

دَبّ • (dabb) m

1. verbal noun of دَبَّ (dabba) (form I)
2. walking along slowly
3. creeping, crawling

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “دب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /dibb/

دِبّ • (dibb) m

1. slow walk
2. creeping, crawling

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “دب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic دُبّ (dubb).

دبّ • (debb, dubb) m (plural دباب (dbāb) or دببة (dibabe))

1. bear