غيهب

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Arabic

Root
غ ه ب (ḡ h b)
1 term

Noun

غَيْهَب (ḡayhabm (plural غَيَاهِب (ḡayāhib))

  1. darkness, obscurity
  2. intense black

Declension

Noun

غَيْهَب (ḡayhab) (masculine plural غَيَاهِب (ḡayāhib))

  1. intensely black, of peculiarly dark colour
  2. inadvertent, heedless, inattentive, inconsiderate
  3. inert, timid, dull

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

غَيْهَبَ (ḡayhaba) Iq (non-past يُغَيْهِبُ (yuḡayhibu), verbal noun غَيْهَبَة (ḡayhaba))

  1. to debilitate the sight with darkness

Conjugation

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “غيهب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 300
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “غيهب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2304
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “غيهب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 804
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غيهب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 931