See also: صغت

Arabic edit

Root
ص ع ب (ṣ-ʕ-b)

Pronunciation 1 edit

Verb edit

صَعُبَ (ṣaʕuba) I, non-past يَصْعُبُ‎ (yaṣʕubu)

  1. to be hard, difficult
Conjugation edit
Descendants edit
  • Maltese: sogħob

Pronunciation 2 edit

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕb/
  • (file)

Adjective edit

صَعْب (ṣaʕb) (feminine صَعْبَة (ṣaʕba), common plural صِعَاب (ṣiʕāb), elative أَصْعَب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. laborious, hard, trying, awkward, difficult, complex
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Pronunciation 3 edit

Verb edit

صَعَّبَ (ṣaʕʕaba) II, non-past يُصَعِّبُ‎ (yuṣaʕʕibu)

  1. to impede
    Synonym: عَقَّدَ (ʕaqqada, to tangle)
Conjugation edit

References edit

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “صعب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Persian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation edit

 
 

Readings
Classical reading? sa'b
Dari reading? sa'b
Iranian reading? sa'b
Tajik reading? saʾb

Adjective edit

Dari صعب
Iranian Persian
Tajik саъб

صعب (sa'b) (comparative صعب‌تَر (sa'b-tar), superlative صعب‌تَرین (sa'b-tarin))

  1. (archaic) difficult

Synonyms edit

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
ص ع ب
1 term

Etymology edit

From Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕb/, [ˈsˤɑ.ʕ(ɪ)b]
  • (file)

Adjective edit

صعب (ṣaʕb) (feminine صعبة (ṣaʕbe), masculine plural صعاب (ṣʕāb), elative أصعب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. hard, difficult
    Antonyms: سهل (sihl), هين (hayyen)

See also edit

  • عويص (ʕawīṣ, complicated), معقد (mʕaʔʔad, complicated)

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

صَعْب (sa'b) (Hindi spelling साब)

  1. difficult, hard, arduous, troublesome, hard to be borne or endured, disagreeable, distressing
  2. refractory, untractable, disobedient, stubborn, perverse

Further reading edit

  • صعب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “صعب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.