Arabic edit

Root
ص و ب (ṣ-w-b)

Verb edit

صَابَ (ṣāba) I, non-past يَصُوبُ‎ (yaṣūbu)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) to hit, to find the target in
    • a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, ضَيْفٌ أَلَمَّ بِرَأْسِي غَيْرَ مُحْتَشِمِ (ḍayfun ʔalamma biraʔsī ḡayra muḥtašimi)[1]:
      قَبَّلْتُهَا وَدُمُوعِي مَزْجُ أَدْمُعِهَا // وَقَبَّلَتْنِي عَلَى خَوْفٍ فَمًا لِفَمِ
      فَذُقْتُ مَاءَ حَيَاةٍ مِنْ مُقَبَّلِهَا // لَوْ صَابَ تُرْبًا لَأَحْيَا سَالِفَ الْأُمَمِ
      qabbaltuhā wadumūʕī mazju ʔadmuʕihā // waqabbalatnī ʕalā ḵawfin faman lifami
      faḏuqtu māʔa ḥayātin min muqabbalihā // law ṣāba turban laʔaḥyā sālifa l-ʔumami
      I kissed her, and my tears mixed with hers, // and she kissed me timidly, mouth to mouth.
      I tasted the water of life from her kiss, // which may revive the ancestors, if it hit the earth.
  2. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) to descend, to rain

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

صَاب (ṣābm

  1. (obsolete) squirting cucumber
    Synonyms: فَقُّوس الْحِمَار (faqqūs al-ḥimār), قِثَّاء الحِمَار (qiṯṯāʔ al-ḥimār), (al-Andalus) عَلْقَم (ʕalqam)

editors=Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs isbn=978-90-04-41334-4 location=Leiden publisher=Brill

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a. 1050, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ], 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.

Declension edit

Moroccan Arabic edit

Root
ص ي ب
2 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

صاب (ṣāb) I (non-past يصيب (yṣīb))

  1. to find
    Synonyms: لقى (lqa), جبر (jbar)

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of صاب
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m صبت (ṣabt) صبتي (ṣabti) صاب (ṣāb) صبنا (ṣabna) صبتوا (ṣabtu) صابوا (ṣābu)
f صابت (ṣābet)
non-past m نصيب (nṣīb) تصيب (tṣīb) يصيب (yṣīb) نصيبوا (nṣību) تصيبوا (tṣību) يصيبوا (yṣību)
f تصيبي (tṣībi) تصيب (tṣīb)
imperative m صيب (ṣīb) صيبوا (ṣību)
f صيبي (ṣībi)