شطب

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Arabic

Root
ش ط ب (š ṭ b)
2 terms

Verb

شَطَبَ (šaṭaba) I (non-past يَشْطُبُ (yašṭubu), verbal noun شَطْب (šaṭb))

  1. (obsolete) to slit, to cut through superficially, to slash
  2. (obsolete) to bend, to lean to the side
  3. (obsolete) to deviate, to decline
  4. to cross out, to delete, to discharge
  5. (law) to dismiss

Conjugation

Verb

شَطَّبَ (šaṭṭaba) II (non-past يُشَطِّبُ (yušaṭṭibu), verbal noun تَشْطِيب (tašṭīb))

  1. (obsolete) to slit, to cut, to scarify
  2. to cross out, to delete, to discharge
  3. to complete, to finish, to put the last hand to, to discharge

Conjugation

Noun

شَطْب (šaṭbm

  1. verbal noun of شَطَبَ (šaṭaba) (form I)

Declension

Noun

شَطْب (šaṭb)

  1. (obsolete) fresh and green; slender

Declension

Noun

شَطْب (šaṭbm (collective, singulative شَطْبَة f (šaṭba))

  1. (obsolete) fresh branches
  2. (obsolete) swords (because of being damasked)

Declension

Noun

شُطَب or شُطُب or شِطَب or شُطُوب (šuṭab or šuṭub or šiṭab or šuṭūbm (collective, singulative شُطَبَة f (šuṭaba) or شُطْبَة (šuṭba) or شِطْبَة (šiṭba))

  1. (obsolete) undulating lines on a sword
  2. (obsolete) long strip

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شطب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 421–422
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شطب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1229–1230
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شطب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, pages 541–542
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “شطب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 479