See also: ص ب ح

Arabic

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Root
ص ب ح (ṣ b ḥ)
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صَبَحَ (ṣabaḥa) I (non-past يَصْبَحُ (yaṣbaḥu), verbal noun صَبْح (ṣabḥ))

  1. to offer a morning draught to (someone)

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صَبُحَ (ṣabuḥa) I (non-past يَصْبُحُ (yaṣbuḥu), verbal noun صَبَاحَة (ṣabāḥa))

  1. to be beautiful, to be handsome, to be pretty
  2. to be graceful
  3. to beam, to be radiant

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صَبَحَ (ṣabaḥa) I, non-past يَصْبَحُ‎ (yaṣbaḥu) (Classical Arabic)

  1. to be reddish, have reddish locks among grey hair
    Synonyms: اِصْبَاحَّ (iṣbāḥḥa), صَهِبَ (ṣahiba)

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صَبَّحَ (ṣabbaḥa) II (non-past يُصَبِّحُ (yuṣabbiḥu), verbal noun تَصْبِيح (taṣbīḥ))

  1. to offer a morning draught
  2. to come in the morning
  3. to wish a good morning

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صُبْح (ṣubḥm (plural أَصْبَاح (ʔaṣbāḥ))

  1. (chiefly Modern Standard Arabic) the time from sunrise to noon, morning
    Synonym: (literary) ضَحْوَة (ḍaḥwa, forenoon)
  2. (archaic) the time from morning twilight to sunrise, dayspring
    Synonym: فَجْر (fajr, dawn)
    1. (Islam) the first of the five obligatory Islamic daily prayers, the daybreak prayer
      Synonym: فَجْر (fajr, the dawn prayer)

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صَبْح (ṣabḥm

  1. verbal noun of صَبَحَ (ṣabaḥa) (form I)

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “صبح”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 475–476
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “صبح”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1303–1304
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “صبح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صبح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 692–693

Gujarati

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Etymology

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From Classical Persian صبح (subh), from Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

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صبح (subahf (Standard Gujarati સુબહ) (Lisan ud-Dawat)

  1. morning, dawn

Malay

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صبح (plural صبح-صبح or صبح۲, informal 1st possessive صبحکو, 2nd possessive صبحمو, 3rd possessive صبحڽ)

  1. Jawi spelling of subuh

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

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Readings
Classical reading? suḇh
Dari reading? subh
Iranian reading? sobh
Tajik reading? subh
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

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Dari صبح
Iranian Persian
Tajik субҳ

صبح (sobh)

  1. morning
    Synonyms: صباح, بامداد

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South Levantine Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

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  • IPA(key): /sˤubħ/, [ˈsˤʊ.b(o)ħ]
  • Audio (Amman):(file)

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صبح (ṣubḥm

  1. morning

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian صبح (subh), from Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

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صُبْح (subhf (Hindi spelling सुबह)

  1. morning
    Antonym: شام (śām)
  2. dawn
    Synonym: سَویرا (saverā)
  3. (figuratively, Islam) fajrsalat (the dawn prayer).

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Declension of صبح
singular plural
direct صبح (subh) صبحیں (subhẽ)
oblique صبح (subh) صبحوں (subhõ)
vocative صبح (subh) صبحو (subho)

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صبح (subah) (Hindi spelling सुबह)

  1. in the morning

Further reading

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  • صبح”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • صبح”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “صبح”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.