ابو شبت
Egyptian Arabic edit
Etymology edit
From the Arabic word شَبَث (šabaṯ, “spider”) + أَبُو (ʔabū, “father of" or "possessor of”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ابو شبت • (ʾabu šabat) m (no plural)
Synonyms edit
References edit
- Spiro, Socrates (1895) “ابو شبت”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office
- Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic[1], Beirut: Librairie du Liban