غ ل ب

Arabic

Root

غ ل ب • (ḡ-l-b)

1. related to achieving supremacy

Derived terms

Verbs and verbal derivatives

• Form I: غَلَبَ (ḡalaba, “to conquer, defeat, overcome”)
  • Verbal noun: غَلَب (ḡalab), غَلْب (ḡalb), غَلَبَة (ḡalaba), مَغْلَب (maḡlab), مَغْلَبَة (maḡlaba), غُلُبَّة (ḡulubba)
  • Active participle: غَالِب (ḡālib)
  • Passive participle: مَغْلُوب (maḡlūb)
• Form I: غَلِبَ (ḡaliba, “to be thick-necked, become thick-necked”)
  • Active participle: غَالِب (ḡālib)
  • Passive participle: مَغْلُوب (maḡlūb)
• Form II: غَلَّبَ (ḡallaba, “to render victorious”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغْلِيب (taḡlīb)
  • Active participle: مُغَلِّب (muḡallib)
  • Passive participle: مُغَلَّب (muḡallab)
• Form III: غَالَبَ (ḡālaba, “to try to overcome, to vie with to overpower, to wrestle with”)
  • Verbal noun: مُغَالَبَة (muḡālaba), غِلَاب (ḡilāb)
  • Active participle: مُغَالِب (muḡālib)
  • Passive participle: مُغَالَب (muḡālab)
• Form V: تَغَلَّبَ (taḡallaba, “to gain mastery over, to conquer; to outweigh”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَلُّب (taḡallub)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَلِّب (mutaḡallib)
  • Passive participle: مُتَغَلَّب (mutaḡallab)
• Form VI: تَغَالَبَ (taḡālaba, “to vie one with another to take the town, to wrestle with one another”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَالُب (taḡālub)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَالِب (mutaḡālib)
• Form VII: اِنْغَلَبَ (inḡalaba, “to be overpowered”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْغِلَاب (inḡilāb)
  • Active participle: مُنْغَلِب (munḡalib)
• Form X: اِسْتَغْلَبَ (istaḡlaba, “to become vehement in effect; to subdue”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِغْلَاب (istiḡlāb)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَغْلِب (mustaḡlib)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَغْلَب (mustaḡlab)
• Form XII: اِغْلَوْلَبَ (iḡlawlaba, “to become tangled, luxuriant, abundant, and dense, to attain full vigour and become convoluted”)
  • Verbal noun: اِغْلِيلَاب (iḡlīlāb)
  • Active participle: مُغْلَوْلِب (muḡlawlib)

• غَالِبِيَّة (ḡālibiyya, “majority”)
• مَغْلُوبِيَّة (maḡlūbiyya, “defeat”)
• غَلَّاب (ḡallāb, “triumphant, who overcomes, who subdues”)
• غَالِبَة (ḡāliba, “a plant name”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “غ ل ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 220–221
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غ ل ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 288
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “غ ل ب”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 489–490
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “غ ل ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2279–2280
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غ ل ب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 796
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غ ل ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 922–923