English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Hindi तालाब (tālāb), from Persian تالاب (tâlâb).

Noun edit

talab (plural talabs)

  1. (Middle East, India, Pakistan) A pond for harvesting rainwater.
    • 2009 September 13, Rick Westhead, “India: Will the tap run dry?”, in Toronto Star[1]:
      Harish, whose foundation provides villages with some of the building costs for tankas and talabs, grins as she relates the story.

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Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: ta‧lab

Noun edit

talab

  1. a pen shell; any member of the family Pinnidae

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Maltese edit

Root
t-l-b
5 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic طَلَبَ (ṭalaba, to demand, ask, beg). Though the Arabic verb can mean “to ask God in prayer”, the general sense “to pray” is not present. In Maltese, it is without doubt a semantic influence from Sicilian prigari (both “to ask” and “to pray”), from Latin precari.

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Verb edit

talab (imperfect jitlob, past participle mitlub, verbal noun talb or tlib)

  1. to ask for; to request; to beg
  2. to pray; to be in prayer

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of talab
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m tlabt tlabt talab tlabna tlabtu talbu
f talbet
imperfect m nitlob titlob jitlob nitolbu titolbu jitolbu
f titlob
imperative itlob itolbu

Tagalog edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: ta‧lab
  • IPA(key): /taˈlab/, [tɐˈlab]

Adjective edit

taláb (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊ᜔)

  1. potently effective; proved effective (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)
    Synonyms: mabisa, nagkabisa, may-bisa
  2. effectively cutting through (of cutting tools)

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Noun edit

taláb (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊ᜔)

  1. potent effectiveness; effective action (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)
    Synonyms: bisa, epekto
  2. cutting action (of cutting tools)
    Synonym: kagat
  3. (obsolete) act of blunting a tool
  4. (obsolete) root used for dyeing

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Other scripts
Cyrillic талаб (talab)
Latin talab
Perso-Arabic

Etymology edit

From Arabic طَلَب (ṭalab), compare Turkish talep (request).

Verb edit

talab (plural talablar)

  1. request
    Synonym: istak

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