ذبح

Compare Hebrew זבח (“to slaughter”) and Ugaritic 𐎄𐎁𐎈 (dbḥ).

ذَبَحَ • (ḏabaḥa) I (non-past يَذْبَحُ (yaḏbaḥu), verbal noun ذَبْح (ḏabḥ))

1. to kill by slitting the throat
2. to slaughter, to butcher

   Synonyms: جَزَرَ (jazara), نَحَرَ (naḥara)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:67:

     إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكُمْ أَن تَذْبَحُوا بَقَرَةً

     ʔinna l-laha yaʔmurukum ʔan taḏbaḥū baqaratan

     Allah commands you to slaughter a cow

3. to massacre
4. to murder, to slay
5. to sacrifice, to offer up, to immolate

• Maltese: debaħ

ذَبَّحَ • (ḏabbaḥa) II (non-past يُذَبِّحُ (yuḏabbiḥu), verbal noun تَذْبِيح (taḏbīḥ))

1. to kill, to slaughter, to butcher, to massacre, to murder
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:49:

     وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَاكُم مِّنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ وَفِي ذَٰلِكُم بَلَاءٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ

     waʔiḏ najjaynākum min ʔāli firʕawna yasūmūnakum sūʔa l-ʕaḏābi yuḏabbiḥūna ʔabnāʔakum wayastaḥyūna nisāʔakum wafī ḏālikum balāʔun min rabbikum ʕaẓīmun

     (Remember) how We delivered you from the people of Pharaoh, who afflicted you with dreadful torment, slaughtering your sons and keeping your women. That was a severe test from your Lord.

   • 1949, Muṣṭafā as-Sibāʕiyy, “غزوة حنين”, in السيرة النبوية: دروس وعبر, 8th edition, Beirut/Damascus: Al-Maktab al-ʕAṣriyy, published 1985, page 143:

     فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ الصَّلِيبِيُّونَ بَيْتَ الْمَقْدِسِ ذَبَّحُوا كُلَّ مَنِ ٱلْتَجَأَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ ٱلْأَقْصَى تَذْبِيحًا عَامًّا، وَقَدْ بَلَغَ مَنْ ذَبَّحُوا فِيهِ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا مِنَ الْعُلَمَاءِ، وَٱلزُّهَّادِ، وَٱلنِّسَاءِ، وَٱلْأَطْفَالِ.

     falammā daḵala ṣ-ṣalībiyyūna bayta l-maqdisi ḏabbaḥū kulla mani ltajaʔa ʔilā l-masjidi l-ʔaqṣā taḏbīḥan ʕāmman, waqad balaḡa man ḏabbaḥū fīhi sabʕīna ʔalfan mina l-ʕulamāʔi, waz-zuhhādi, wan-nisāʔi, wal-ʔaṭfāli.

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ذَبْح • (ḏabḥ) m

1. verbal noun of ذَبَحَ (ḏabaḥa) (form I)
2. slaughter, slaughtering

ذِبْح • (ḏibḥ) m

1. sacrificial victim, blood sacrifice

From Arabic ذَبَحَ (ḏabaḥa).

• IPA^(key): /da.baħ/, /ða.baħ/

ذبح • (dabaḥ) I (non-past يِذْبَح (yidbaḥ))

1. to kill by slitting the throat
2. to slaughter, to butcher
3. to murder, to slay

From Arabic ذَبَّحَ (ḏabbaḥa).

• IPA^(key): /dab.baħ/, /ðab.baħ/

ذبح • (dabbaḥ) II (non-past يِذَبِّح (yidabbiḥ))

1. to kill, to massacre

   Synonym: قَتَّل (gattal)

From Arabic ذَبْح (ḏabḥ).

• IPA^(key): /dabħ/, /ðabħ/

ذبح • (dabḥ) m

1. slaughter, slaughtering

Borrowed from Arabic ذَبْح (ḏabḥ). Formally perhaps influenced by the related ذِبْح (ḏibḥ), though alteration of short vowels in Arabic loanwords is a common phenomenon.

ذبح • (zebh)

1. slaughter, slaughtering

   Synonym: (more general) کشتن (koštan)

• ذبح کردن (zebh kardan)
• ذبح شدن (zebh šodan)

• ذبیح (zabih)