Arabic

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Root
غ ه ب (ḡ-h-b)

Noun

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غَيْهَب (ḡayhabm (plural غَيَاهِب (ḡayāhib))

  1. darkness, obscurity
  2. intense black

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

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

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Verb

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غَيْهَبَ (ḡayhaba) Iq, non-past يُغَيْهِبُ‎ (yuḡayhibu)

  1. to debilitate the sight with darkness

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “غيهب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 300
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “غيهب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], 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[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 931