Arabic edit

Root
ه د ب (h-d-b)

Verb edit

هَدَبَ (hadaba) I, non-past يَهْدِبُ‎ (yahdibu)

  1. to cull, to abscind, to pluck

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

هَدِبَ (hadiba) I, non-past يَهْدَبُ‎ (yahdabu)

  1. to have long lashes, to have prominent fringes

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

هُدُب or هُدْب (hudub or hudbm (plural أَهْدَاب (ʔahdāb))

  1. hem, frill, fringe, lash

Declension edit

Noun edit

هَدَب (hadabm (collective, singulative هَدَبَة f (hadaba), plural أَهْدَاب (ʔahdāb) or هِدَاب (hidāb))

  1. twisted leaves or sprigs
    Synonym: عَبَل (ʕabal)
    1. (botany) cilium
      Synonym: عَبَل (ʕabal)

Declension edit

Noun edit

هَدْب (hadbm

  1. verbal noun of هَدَبَ (hadaba) (form I)

Declension edit

Noun edit

هَدَب (hadabm

  1. verbal noun of هَدِبَ (hadiba) (form I)

Declension edit

Adjective edit

هَدِب (hadib)

  1. having long lashes, frilly

Declension edit

Adjective edit

هُدْب (hudbc pl

  1. common plural of أَهْدَب (ʔahdab, having long lashes, frilly)

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “هدب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 374–375
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “هدب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 1168
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “هدب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1342