Arabic

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Root
ش ه ب (š h b)
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Pronunciation

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Noun

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شِهَاب (šihābm (plural شُهُب (šuhub) or شُهْبَان (šuhbān) or شِهْبَان (šihbān) or أَشْهُب (ʔašhub))

  1. brand, blaze, burning flame
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 15:18:
      إِلَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَرَقَ ٱلسَّمْعَ فَأَتْبَعَهُ شِهَابٌ مُّبِينٌ
      ʔillā mani staraqa s-samʕa faʔatbaʕahu šihābun mmubīnun
      Except one who steals a hearing and is pursued by a clear burning flame.
  2. brand, a feeling of inflammation or irritation on the body
    • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 802 (fol. 68r,1–5), page 938:
      الصاب هو العلقم، وقال أبو حنيفة: الصاب شجر إذا اعتصر خرج منه كهيئة اللبن، فربّما نزتْ منه نزية، أي قطرة، فتقع في العين فكأنّها شهاب نار، وربّما أضعفت البصر.
      Aṣ-ṣāb is the squirting cucumber. Abū Ḥanīfa said: Aṣ-ṣāb is a shrub from which one brings out a milkish sap on squeeze. If a squirt, that is to say a single drop of it, touches the eye, it is afterwards [hurting] like fire-brand. It potentially weakens the eyesight.
  3. meteor

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Persian: شهاب (šahâb)
  • Medieval Latin: asub, assub

Proper noun

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شِهَاب (šihāb)

  1. a surname

Further reading

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  • West, Andrew F. (1891) “Lexicographical Gleanings from the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, volume 22, page 100

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic شِهَاب (šihāb).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? šahāḇ
Dari reading? šahāb
Iranian reading? šahâb
Tajik reading? šahob

Noun

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شهاب (šahâb) (plural شهاب‌ها (šahâb-hâ))

  1. meteor
  2. shooting star
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Proper noun

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شهاب (šahâb)

  1. a male given name, Shahab, from Arabic