سبب

• IPA^(key): /sab.ba.ba/

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سَبَّبَ • (sabbaba) II (non-past يُسَبِّبُ (yusabbibu), verbal noun تَسْبِيب (tasbīb))

1. to cause, to effect, to trigger, to generate

Compare Hebrew סיבה (sibá, “cause, reason”).

• IPA^(key): /sa.bab/

سَبَب • (sabab) m (plural أَسْبَاب (ʔasbāb))

1. (chiefly Classical Arabic) cable, rope

   Synonyms: حَبْل (ḥabl), مَرَسَة (marasa), رِبَاط (ribāṭ), قَلْس (qals), أَشْل (ʔašl), طُنُب (ṭunub), مَرَار (marār), إِصَار (ʔiṣār), مَأْصِر (maʔṣir), سِلْسِلَة (silsila), مِقَاط (miqāṭ)

2. cause, grounds, aetiological reason

   بِسَبَب ذٰلِكَ ― bi-sabab ḏālika ― because of that

   • a. 1233 CE, Ibn al-Athīr, الكامل في التاريخ‎, 1st edition, volume 4, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, published 1997, page 81:

     وَكَانَ سَبَبُ قَتْلِهِ أَنَّ أَبَاهُ اسْتَعْمَلَهُ عَلَى الْأَنْدَلُسِ، كَمَا ذَكَرْنَا، عِنْدَ عَوْدِهِ إِلَى الشَّامِ، فَضَبَطَهَا وَسَدَّدَ أُمُورَهَا، وَحَمَى ثُغُورَهَا، وَافْتَتَحَ فِي إِمَارَتِهِ مَدَائِنَ بَقِيَتْ بَعْدَ أَبِيهِ،

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3. alibi

• → Armenian: սաբաբ (sabab)
• → Avar: сабаб (sabab)
• → Azerbaijani: səbəb
• → Bashkir: сәбәп (səbəp)
• → Crimean Tatar: sebep
• → Fula: sababu
• → Georgian: საბაბი (sababi)
• → Hausa: sabàbī
• → Kazakh: себеп (sebep)
• → Kyrgyz: себеп (sebep)
• → Ladino: sebeb, sebep
• → Malay: sebab, sbb (Internet, text messaging)
  • > Indonesian: sebab (inherited)
  • → Central Dusun: sabab
  • → Tausug: sabab
  • → Brooke's Point Palawano: sabab
• → Pashto: سبب (sabáb)
• → Persian: سبب (sabab)
  • → Gujarati: સબબ (sabab)
  • → Hindi: सबब (sabab)
  • → Marathi: सबब (sabab)
  • → Urdu: سبب (sabab)
• → Somali: sabab, sababta
• → Swahili: sababu
• → Tajik: сабаб (sabab)
• → Tatar: сәбәп (säbäp)
• → Turkish: sebep
• → Turkmen: sebäp
• → Uyghur: سەۋەب (seweb)
• → Uzbek: sabab
• → Yoruba: sábàbí

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

سبب (plural سبب-سبب or سبب٢)

1. Jawi spelling of sebab.‎

سبب

1. Jawi spelling of sebab.‎

From Arabic سَبَب (sabab).

سبب • (sebeb)

1. cause, reason
2. motive

• Turkish: sebep
• → Albanian: sebep
• → Armenian: սեպեպ (sepep), սա̈բա̈բ (säbäb)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سبب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 662b
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “sebep”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic سَبَب (sabab).

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سبب • (sabab) (plural اسباب (asbâb))

1. cause, reason

   Synonyms: باعث (bâ'es), دلیل (dalil)

   سبب این حادثه ― sabab-e in hâdese ― the cause of this incident

   سبب کاهش قیمت‌ها ― sabab-e kâheš-e qeymat-hâ ― the cause of the decline in prices

   • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 4”, in دیوان حافظ :

     ندانم از چه سبب رنگ آشنایی نیست
     سهی قدان سیه چشم ماه سیما را

     na-dânam az če sabab rang-e âšenâyi nist
     sahi qaddân-e siyah čašm-e mâh simâ râ

     I do not know for what reason there is no hue of recognition from these ones standing tall, with black eyes and moon-like faces.

• → Gujarati: સબબ (sabab)
• → Hindi: सबब (sabab)
• → Marathi: सबब (sabab)
• → Urdu: سبب (sabab)

From Arabic سَبَّبَ (sabbaba).

• IPA^(key): /sab.bab/,

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سبّب • (sabbab) II (present بسبّب (bisabbeb))

1. to cause, to produce, to bring about

   التضخم المالي بسبّب لمجتمعنا الاستقرار.

   il-taḍaḵḵom al-māli bisabbeb la-mujtamʕana al-istaqrār

   Inflation brings about instability in our society.

   الطقس سبّب هالتّأخير. ― il-taʕs sabbab ha-t-tʕaḵīr ― The weather caused this delay.