See also: أجب, أخت, and اچت

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ح ب ب (ḥ-b-b)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.ħab.ba/
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Verb edit

أَحَبَّ (ʔaḥabba) IV, non-past يُحِبُّ‎ (yuḥibbu)

  1. to love, to like
    أُحِبُّكَʔuḥibbukaI love you (to a male)
    أُحِبُّكِʔuḥibbukiI love you (to a female)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:216:
      وَعَسَى أَن تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ وَعَسَى أَن تُحِبُّوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَكُمْ
      waʕasā ʔan takrahū šayʔan wahuwa ḵayrun lakum waʕasā ʔan tuḥibbū šayʔan wahuwa šarrun lakum
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Etymology 2 edit

Elative of حَبِيب (ḥabīb, dear).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

أَحَبّ (ʔaḥabb)

  1. elative degree of حَبِيب (ḥabīb):
    1. dearer; dearest, favourite
      • 1355 CE, Ibn Battuta, edited by Abd Al-Hādī At-Tāzī, رحلة ابن بطوطة المسماة تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار, volume 4, Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, published 1997, →ISBN, page 74:
        وكانت الرابعة وهي ربيبة الوزير عبد الله تسكن في دارها. وهي أحبهن إليّ.
        My fourth wife, who was the daughter-in-law of the Wazir ‘Abdallah, used to live in her own house, and she was my favourite amongst them.
        Translated by H. A. R. Gibb
    2. more agreeable; most agreeable
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Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

أَحِبُّ (ʔaḥibbu) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of حَبَّ (ḥabba)

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أَحِبَّ (ʔaḥibba) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
  2. first-person singular non-past active jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)

Verb edit

أَحِبِّ (ʔaḥibbi) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)

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أُحَبُّ (ʔuḥabbu) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past passive indicative of حَبَّ (ḥabba)

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أُحَبَّ (ʔuḥabba) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)
  2. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)

Verb edit

أُحَبِّ (ʔuḥabbi) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of حَبَّ (ḥabba)