دولاب

دولاب

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian دولاب‎ (dulâb, dolâb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː.laːb/, /daw.laːb/

Noun

دُولَاب or دَوْلَاب • (dūlāb or dawlāb) m (plural دَوَالِيب‎ (dawālīb))

1. water-wheel
   • a. 896, Ibn ar-Rũmīy, يا سائلي عن مجمع اللذات …‎:

     ‏ومتِّع العين بها مَليَّا – وأطبق الخبزَ وكلْ هنيّا
     طوراً تُرى كفِلكةِ الدولاب – وتارةً كعسجدِ الذُّؤابِ‎

     And bespin the eye with it for long – layer bread, beget bare throng!
     Lots, looks like a hench waterwheel – strings of gold, clumps for real!

   • a. 1000, المقدسي, Michael Jan de Goeje, editor, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 208 line 8:

     ‏والقادوس كوز الدولاب‎

     And bucket is the dipper of a water-wheel.

2. wheel
3. tire
4. gears, machinery
5. closet, cupboard

Declension

Declension of noun دُولَاب (dūlāb)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُولَاب dūlāb	الدُّولَاب‎ ad-dūlāb	دُولَاب dūlāb
Nominative	دُولَابٌ dūlābun	الدُّولَابُ‎ ad-dūlābu	دُولَابُ dūlābu
Accusative	دُولَابًا‎ dūlāban	الدُّولَابَ‎ ad-dūlāba	دُولَابَ dūlāba
Genitive	دُولَابٍ dūlābin	الدُّولَابِ‎ ad-dūlābi	دُولَابِ dūlābi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُولَابَيْن‎ dūlābayn	الدُّولَابَيْن‎ ad-dūlābayn	دُولَابَيْ‎ dūlābay
Nominative	دُولَابَانِ‎ dūlābāni	الدُّولَابَانِ‎ ad-dūlābāni	دُولَابَا‎ dūlābā
Accusative	دُولَابَيْنِ‎ dūlābayni	الدُّولَابَيْنِ‎ ad-dūlābayni	دُولَابَيْ‎ dūlābay
Genitive	دُولَابَيْنِ‎ dūlābayni	الدُّولَابَيْنِ‎ ad-dūlābayni	دُولَابَيْ‎ dūlābay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَوَالِيب‎ dawālīb	الدَّوَالِيب‎ ad-dawālīb	دَوَالِيب‎ dawālīb
Nominative	دَوَالِيبُ‎ dawālību	الدَّوَالِيبُ‎ ad-dawālību	دَوَالِيبُ‎ dawālību
Accusative	دَوَالِيبَ‎ dawālība	الدَّوَالِيبَ‎ ad-dawālība	دَوَالِيبَ‎ dawālība
Genitive	دَوَالِيبَ‎ dawālība	الدَّوَالِيبِ‎ ad-dawālībi	دَوَالِيبِ‎ dawālībi

References

• Haywood, J.A.; Nahmad, H.M. (1965), “دولاب”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “دولاب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “دولاب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		долаб
Perso-Arabic		دولاب

Noun

دولاب (dolab) (definite accusative دولابی‎ (dolabı), plural دولابلار‎ (dolablar))

1. Arabic spelling of dolab (“closet”)

Declension

Declension of دولاب

	singular	plural
nominative	دولاب	دولابلار‎
definite accusative	دولابێ‎	دولابلارێ‎
dative	دولابا‎	دولابلارا‎
locative	دولابدا‎	دولابلاردا‎
ablative	دولابدان‎	دولابلاردان‎
definite genitive	دولابێن‎	دولابلارێن‎

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Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Persian دولاب‎ (dolâb, “closet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːˈlaːb/

Noun

دولاب • (dōlāb) m (plural دَوَاليب‎ (dawālīb))

1. closet

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Persian

Etymology 1

Perhaps from دو‎ (do, “two”) +‎ لاب‎ (lâb, “split, cleft; half”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /dulɑːb/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /dʊlɑːb/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /dolɒːb/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /dulɔb/

Noun

دولاب • (dolâb)

1. (now dialectal) cupboard; closet
2. trick, fraud, machination

Descendants

• → Armenian: դոլաբ (dolab)
• → Azerbaijani: dolab
• → Central Kurdish: [script needed] (dołab)
• → Northern Kurdish: dolab, dolap, dolav
• → Ottoman Turkish: طولاب‎ (dolab)
  • Turkish: dolap
  • → Albanian: dollap
  • → Bulgarian: дола́п (doláp)
  • → Romanian: dulap
  • → Greek: ντουλάπι (doulápi)
  • → Ladino: dolap
  • → Serbo-Croatian: dòlāp

Etymology 2

From دول‎ (dul) +‎ آب‎ (âb), or from earlier دلوآب‎ (dalvâb), from دلو‎ (dalv) + آب‎ (âb), or this is an analogic formation. The vocalism dowlâb is reborrowed from Arabic دَوْلَاب‎ (dawlāb).

Noun

دولاب • (dulâb, dowlâb) (plural دولاب‌ها‎ (dulâb, dowlâb-hâ))

1. (archaic) water wheel; draw-well
   1. (archaic) Persian wheel
   • 1045-1052, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama

     ‏بر آب دولاب های بسیار ساخته اند.‎‎

     bar āb dūlāb-hāyi basyār sāxta-and.

     [O]ver [the Orontes] river they have built many water wheels.

Descendants

• → Arabic: دَوْلَاب‎ (dawlāb)
• → Middle Armenian: դօլապ (dōlap), տոլապ (tolap)
• → Ottoman Turkish: طولاب‎ (dolab)