ذهب

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See also: دہت and ذ ه ب

Arabic

Root
ذ ه ب (ḏ h b)
7 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

ذَهَبَ (ḏahaba) I (non-past يَذْهَبُ (yaḏhabu), verbal noun ذَهَاب (ḏahāb) or مَذْهَب (maḏhab))

  1. to go, to travel
    إِلَى أَيْنَ أَنْتَ ذَاهِبٌ؟
    ʔilā ʔayna ʔanta ḏāhibun?
    Where are you going?
  2. to go away, to leave, to depart
  3. to disappear, to vanish
  4. to decline, to dwindle
  5. to perish, to die, to be destroyed
  6. to abduct, to steal, to sweep away, to annihilate
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:أفنى
  7. to lead someone, to conduct someone, to take someone along
  8. to think, to believe, to hold the view, to be of the opinion
    • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان , volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, page 37, line 9:
      فأمّا الْبَرِيد ففيه خلاف وذهب قوم إلى أنه بالبادية اثنا عشر ميلا وبالشام وخراسان ستة أميال
      About the postal route there is disagreement. Folks believed that in the desert it is twelve miles and in Syria and Khorasan six miles.
  9. to escape, to slip, to lose sight of, to be forgotten
  10. to ignore, to skip, to omit
  11. to prepare to, to be about to

Conjugation

Verb

ذَهَّبَ (ḏahhaba) II (non-past يُذَهِّبُ (yuḏahhibu), verbal noun تَذْهِيب (taḏhīb))

  1. to gild

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ðah.ha.ba/

Conjugation

ذَهَبَ

Noun

ذَهَب (ḏahabm

  1. (uncountable) gold
    Synonyms: عَسْجَد (ʕasjad), تِبْر (tibr), إِبْرِيز (ʔibrīz)
  2. (uncountable) gold coin

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ða.hab/,

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Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

Noun

ذهب (ḏahabm

  1. (uncountable) gold

Hijazi Arabic

ذَهَبَ

Etymology

From Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

Noun

ذَهَب (dahabm

  1. gold

Usage notes

Both pronunciations are used by most speakers interchangeably.

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? ḏahaḇ, zahaḇ
Dari reading? zahab
Iranian reading? zahab
Tajik reading? zahab

Noun

Dari ذهب
Iranian Persian
Tajik заҳаб

ذهب (zahab)

  1. Synonym of طلا (gold)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

Noun

ذهب (dáhabm

  1. (uncountable) gold

Derived terms

  • ذهبي (dahabi, gold, golden (color))