أسباب
See also: اسپات, استأت, and اسباب
Arabic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔas.baːb/
Noun
أَسْبَاب • (ʾasbāb) m pl
- plural of سَبَب (sabab)
Etymology 2
From Ge'ez አስባብ (ʾäsbab, “guards”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔas.baːb/
Noun
أَسْبَاب • (ʾasbāb) m pl (hapax)
- guards, guardhouse, watchtower
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 40:36:
- وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يٰهٰمَٰنُ ٱِبْنِ لِي صَرْحًا لَّعَلِّي أَبْلُغُ الْأَسْبٰبَ
- waqāla firʿawnu yāhāmānu ibni lī ṣarḥan llaʿallī ʾabluḡu l-ʾasbāba
- And Pharaoh said: O Haman! Build me a tower that I may reach the guardians [of heaven]!
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Declension
Declension of noun أَسْبَاب (ʾasbāb)
| Plural | basic broken plural triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | أَسْبَاب ʾasbāb | الْأَسْبَاب al-ʾasbāb | أَسْبَاب ʾasbāb |
| Nominative | أَسْبَابٌ ʾasbābun | الْأَسْبَابُ al-ʾasbābu | أَسْبَابُ ʾasbābu |
| Accusative | أَسْبَابًا ʾasbāban | الْأَسْبَابَ al-ʾasbāba | أَسْبَابَ ʾasbāba |
| Genitive | أَسْبَابٍ ʾasbābin | الْأَسْبَابِ al-ʾasbābi | أَسْبَابِ ʾasbābi |
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 359
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 483
- Margoliouth, David Samuel (1939), “Some Additions to Professor Jeffery’s Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾan”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, issue 1, DOI:, pages 58–59