See also: غب and غث

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ع ب ب (ʕ-b-b)

Verb edit

عَبَّ (ʕabba) I, non-past يَعُبُّ‎ (yaʕubbu)

  1. to gulp, to chug down
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 58:
      وهي الساعة التي يكون فيها مزاجه رائقاً بعد أن يكون قد عبّ ثلاثة أقداح من الويسكي.
      It was the hour where he had a buoyant mood already after swigging three stoops of whiskey.
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Considered a vulgar word; probably from Aramaic עוּבָּא / עֻבָּא / ܥܘܒܐ (ʿubbā), broader of meaning: “bosom, lap; any enclosed space; calyx …”. Doublet of غُبّ (ḡubb, depressed terrain; bosom of the sea). جَيْب (jayb, pocket) is similarly suspect of being an Aramaic borrowing.

Noun edit

عُبّ or عِبّ (ʕubb or ʕibbm

  1. breast pocket, a pocket in a shirt higher than a جَيْب (jayb)
Declension edit