باب

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See also: تأت, پاپ, بات, تاب, تأب, and باپ

Arabic

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بَاب
Root
ب و ب (b w b)
5 terms

Etymology

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Usually considered a borrowing from Aramaic בָּבָא (bāḇā, gate), from Akkadian 𒆍 (bābum, gate), particularly since the Arabs, living in tents, did not need doors. However, Hans Bauer considers all of these words native, explaining the formation as an ancient univerbation of etyma equivalent to Arabic بَاءَ (bāʔa) بِ (bi) “he has entered into (the house)”.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /baːb/
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Noun

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بَاب (bābm (plural أَبْوَاب (ʔabwāb) or بِيبَان (bībān))

  1. door, gate
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:58:
      وَادْخُلُوا الْبَابَ سُجَّدًا وَقُولُوا حِطَّةٌ
      wādḵulū al-bāba sujjadan waqūlū ḥiṭṭatun
      [And] enter the gate with humility [...]
  2. opening, gateway
  3. entrance
  4. gullet, weasand
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 33, Art. 10, page 677 line 6:
      وقد تخرج للدابة من حنكها ويسمي التحنيك وصفة العمل في ذلك إذا أحنكت الدابة فأفتح لها من الدرجة الثالثة والرابعة ولا تفتح لها قرب الباب لأن الدم ربما عسر إمساكه فتلف الدابة.
      One may extract the blood from the jaw of a beast and it is called taḥnīk and the operation consists in that you have bound the beast with a chinstrap and now cut it open to the third or fourth degree but don’t open it close the throat as it may be difficult to contain the blood and the beast will succumb.
  5. opportunity, a chance, opening
  6. military tactic, maneuver, an opening to use a strategy
  7. chapter, section, column
  8. group, class, category
  9. (astronomy) appearance of an astronomical body, a juncture, an opening to observe
  10. (figurative) domain, field

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Maltese: bieb
  • Middle Armenian: պապ (pap), բաբ (bab)
  • Malay: bab
    • Indonesian: bab
  • Persian: باب
  • Ottoman Turkish: باب (bab)
  • Turkmen: bap

References

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  • Bauer, Hans (1935) “Etymologica II”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete[1] (in German), volume 10, page 165
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 14
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “باب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 170
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 74
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “باب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 101
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “باب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 30

Egyptian Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic بَاب (bāb).

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Noun

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باب (bābm (plural بيبان (bibā́n))

  1. door

Malay

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Adjective

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باب (plural باب-باب or باب۲, informal 1st possessive بابکو, 2nd possessive بابمو, 3rd possessive بابڽ)

  1. Jawi spelling of bab

Moroccan Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic بَاب (bāb).

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Noun

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باب (bābm or f (plural بيبان (bībān) or بواب (bwāb))

  1. door, gate

Persian

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Readings
Classical reading? bāḇ
Dari reading? bāb
Iranian reading? bâb
Tajik reading? bob

Etymology 1

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Adjective

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باب (bâb)

  1. appropriate

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic بَاب (bāb).

Noun

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Dari باب
Iranian Persian
Tajik боб

باب (bâb) (plural باب‌ها (bâb-hâ))

  1. door
  2. gate
  3. chapter

Proper noun

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باب (bâb)

  1. the Báb
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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باب (bâb)

  1. (archaic) father

Etymology 4

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Borrowed from English Bob.

Proper noun

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باب (bâb)

  1. A transliteration of the English male given name diminutive Bob
    باب اسفنجیbâb esfanjiSpongeBob
    باب دیلنbâb dilenBob Dylan

South Levantine Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic بَاب (bāb).

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Noun

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باب (bābm (plural بواب (bwāb))

  1. door
  2. gate
    Synonym: بوابة (bawwābe)
  3. entrance
    Synonym: مدخل (madḵal)