أسباب

See also: اسپات, استأت, and اسباب

Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔas.baːb/

Noun

أَسْبَاب • (ʔasbāb) m pl

1. plural of سَبَب (sabab)

Etymology 2

From Ge'ez አስባብ (ʾäsbab, “guards”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔas.baːb/

Noun

أَسْبَاب • (ʔasbāb) m pl (hapax)

1. guards, guardhouse, watchtower
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 40:36:

     وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يٰهٰمَٰنُ ٱِبْنِ لِي صَرْحًا لَّعَلِّي أَبْلُغُ الْأَسْبٰبَ

     waqāla firʕawnu yāhāmānu ibni lī ṣarḥan laʕallī ʔabluḡu l-ʔasbāba

     And Pharaoh said: O Haman! Build me a tower that I may reach the guardians [of heaven]!

Declension

Declension of noun أَسْبَاب (ʔasbāb)

Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَسْبَاب ʔasbāb	الْأَسْبَاب al-ʔasbāb	أَسْبَاب ʔasbāb
Nominative	أَسْبَابٌ ʔasbābun	الْأَسْبَابُ al-ʔasbābu	أَسْبَابُ ʔasbābu
Accusative	أَسْبَابًا ʔasbāban	الْأَسْبَابَ al-ʔasbāba	أَسْبَابَ ʔasbāba
Genitive	أَسْبَابٍ ʔasbābin	الْأَسْبَابِ al-ʔasbābi	أَسْبَابِ ʔasbābi

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 359
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 483
• Margoliouth, David Samuel (1939) “Some Additions to Professor Jeffery’s Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾan”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, number 1, →DOI, pages 58–59