صعب

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See also: صغت

Arabic

Etymology 1.1

Root
ص ع ب (ṣ ʕ b)
4 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

صَعُبَ (ṣaʕuba) I (non-past يَصْعُبُ (yaṣʕubu), verbal noun صُعُوبَة (ṣuʕūba))

  1. to be hard, difficult
Conjugation
Descendants
  • Maltese: sogħob

Etymology 1.2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕb/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

صَعْب (ṣaʕb) (feminine صَعْبَة (ṣaʕba), common plural صِعَاب (ṣiʕāb), elative أَصْعَب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. laborious, hard, trying, awkward, difficult, complex
Declension
Antonyms
Descendants

Etymology 1.3

Pronunciation

Verb

صَعَّبَ (ṣaʕʕaba) II (non-past يُصَعِّبُ (yuṣaʕʕibu), verbal noun تَصْعِيب (taṣʕīb))

  1. to impede
    Synonym: عَقَّدَ (ʕaqqada, to tangle)
Conjugation

References

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

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sa'b
Dari reading? sa'b
Iranian reading? sa'b
Tajik reading? saʾb

Adjective

Dari صعب
Iranian Persian
Tajik саъб

صعب (sa'b) (comparative صعب‌تَر (sa'b-tar), superlative صعب‌تَرین (sa'b-tarin))

  1. (archaic) difficult
    Synonyms: دشوار (došvâr), سخت (saxt), مشکل (moškel)

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ص ع ب
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

Adjective

صعب (ṣaʕb) (feminine صعبة (ṣaʕbe), masculine plural صعاب (ṣʕāb), elative أصعب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. hard, difficult
    Antonyms: سهل (sihl), هين (hayyen)

See also

  • عويص (ʕawīṣ, complicated), معقد (mʕaʔʔad, complicated)

Urdu

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

Adjective

صَعْب (sa'b) (Hindi spelling साब)

  1. difficult, hard, arduous, troublesome, hard to be borne or endured, disagreeable, distressing
  2. refractory, untractable, disobedient, stubborn, perverse

Further reading

  • صعب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “صعب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.