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Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), from Arabic جَيْب (jayb, “pocket; opening in a garment”). Compare Assamese জেপ (zep), Bengali জেব (jeb), Punjabi ਜੇਬ (jeb).
The word used to only refer to shirt pockets in Arabic, but as pockets have shifted to the lower body the Hindi terms has come to include those.
Pronunciation
Noun
जेब • (jeb) f (Urdu spelling جیب)
- pocket
Declension
Declension of जेब (fem cons-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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जेब
jeb
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जेबें
jebẽ
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| oblique
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जेब
jeb
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जेबों
jebõ
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| vocative
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जेब
jeb
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जेबो
jebo
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