عب

عَبَّ • (ʕabba) I (non-past يَعُبُّ (yaʕubbu), verbal noun عَبّ (ʕabb))

1. to gulp, to chug down
   • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل , أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 58:

     وهي الساعة التي يكون فيها مزاجه رائقاً بعد أن يكون قد عبّ ثلاثة أقداح من الويسكي.

     It was the hour where he had a buoyant mood already after swigging three stoops of whiskey.

Considered a vulgar word; probably from Aramaic עוּבָּא / עֻבָּא / ܥܘܒܐ (ʿubbā), broader of meaning: “bosom, lap; any enclosed space; calyx …”. Doublet of غُبّ (ḡubb, “depressed terrain; bosom of the sea”). جَيْب (jayb, “pocket”) is similarly suspect of being an Aramaic borrowing.

عُبّ or عِبّ • (ʕubb or ʕibb) m

1. breast pocket, a pocket in a shirt higher than a جَيْب (jayb)

Cognate with Akkadian 𒅁𒁍 (ebbu) "to be bright, shiny; to be pure, clean".

عَب or عَبّ • (ʕab or ʕabb) m

1. light