Hindi

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit (ta, this; that) + एवम् एव (evam eva, just so), with the latter being a compound of एवम् (evam) and एव (eva).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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तब (tab) (Urdu spelling تب)

  1. then, afterwards
  2. at that time, back then
    तब वह इतना तेज़ नहीं भाग सकता था।
    tab vah itnā tez nahī̃ bhāg saktā thā.
    Back then he could not run this fast.

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References

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  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “तब”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “तब”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • तब”, in Collins Gem Hindi-English Dictionary, Collins, 2011, →ISBN
  • Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “तब”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House