تسبيح

Arabic

Root
س ب ح (s-b-ḥ)

Etymology

Verbal noun of سَبَّحَ (sabbaḥa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tas.biːħ/

Noun

تَسْبِيح • (tasbīḥ) m

1. glorification of God
2. exclamation of tasbih, such as:

   سبحان الله ― subḥān Allah ― Glory be to Allah

3. (colloquial) prayer beads, misbaha

   Synonyms: مِسْبَاح (misbāḥ), مِسْبَحَة (misbaḥa), سُبْحَة (subḥa)

Declension

Declension of noun تَسْبِيح (tasbīḥ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَسْبِيح tasbīḥ	التَّسْبِيح at-tasbīḥ	تَسْبِيح tasbīḥ
Nominative	تَسْبِيحٌ tasbīḥun	التَّسْبِيحُ at-tasbīḥu	تَسْبِيحُ tasbīḥu
Accusative	تَسْبِيحًا tasbīḥan	التَّسْبِيحَ at-tasbīḥa	تَسْبِيحَ tasbīḥa
Genitive	تَسْبِيحٍ tasbīḥin	التَّسْبِيحِ at-tasbīḥi	تَسْبِيحِ tasbīḥi

Derived terms

• تَسْبِيحَة (tasbīḥa)

Descendants

• Judeo-Arabic: תסביח (tasbīḥ)
• → Azerbaijani: təsbeh
• → Bashkir: тәсбих (təsbix)
• → Japanese: タスビーフ (tasubīfu)
• → Persian: تسبیح (tasbih)
  • → Armenian: թազբեհ (tʻazbeh)
  • → Bashkir: тиҫбе (tiśbe)
  • → Bengali: তসবীহ (tosbiho)
  • → Dongxiang: tesibihha
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: तसबीह (tasbīh)

    Urdu: تسبیح (tasbīh)

  • → Kazakh: тәсбих (täsbix)
  • → Kyrgyz: теспе (tespe)
  • → Salar: tesbiha
  • → Uzbek: tasbeh
• → Polish: tasbih
• → Swahili: tasbihi
• → Tausug: tasbi
• → Ottoman Turkish: تسبیح (tesbih, tespih)
  • Turkish: tespih
  • → Albanian: tespihe
  • → Armenian: թզբեխ (tʻzbex)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тѐспих

    Latin script: tèspih

• → Yakan: tasbi

References

• Al-Tahānawī, Kashshāf Iṣṭilāḥāt al-Funūn wa-l-ʿUlūm (d. 1777 CE) كشّاف اصطلاحات الفنون والعلوم للتهانوي