talab
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hindi तालाब (tālāb), from Persian تالاب (tâlâb).
Noun edit
talab (plural talabs)
- (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.
Anagrams edit
Cebuano edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ta‧lab
Noun edit
talab
Anagrams edit
Maltese edit
Root |
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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.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
talab (imperfect jitlob, past participle mitlub, verbal noun talb or tlib)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of talab | ||||||||
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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
Adjective edit
taláb (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊ᜔)
- potently effective; proved effective (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)
- effectively cutting through (of cutting tools)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
taláb (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜊ᜔)
- potent effectiveness; effective action (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)
- cutting action (of cutting tools)
- Synonym: kagat
- (obsolete) act of blunting a tool
- (obsolete) root used for dyeing
Anagrams edit
Uzbek edit
Other scripts | |
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Cyrillic | талаб (talab) |
Latin | talab |
Perso-Arabic |
Etymology edit
From Arabic طَلَب (ṭalab), compare Turkish talep (“request”).
Verb edit
talab (plural talablar)
Declension edit
Declension of talab
singular | plural | |
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nominative | talab | talablar |
genitive | talabning | talablarning |
dative | talabga | talablarga |
definite accusative | talabni | talablarni |
locative | talabda | talablarda |
ablative | talabdan | talablardan |
Possessive forms of talab