ه ض ب
Arabic
Root
ه ض ب • (h-ḍ-b)
- related to endless rains, to downpour, to overflowing, to gushing out or along, to having abundant water
- to running one's mouth, to be loquacious, to spew or rattle on endlessly, to speak abundantly
- to continuing on, to seemingly never end, to keep going like the coming down of torrential rains
Derived terms
- Form I: هَضَبَ (haḍaba, “to irrigate; to be verbose, to be wordy; to march along in a foolish manner”)
- Verbal noun: هَضْب (haḍb)
- Active participle: هَاضِب (hāḍib)
- Passive participle: مَهْضُوب (mahḍūb)
- Form IV: أَهْضَبَ (ʾahḍaba, “to be excessive in words”)
- Verbal noun: إِهْضَاب (ʾihḍāb)
- Active participle: مُهْضِب (muhḍib)
- Passive participle: مُهْضَب (muhḍab)
- Form VIII: اِهْتَضَبَ (ihtaḍaba, “to be excessive in words”)
- Verbal noun: اِهْتِضَاب (ihtiḍāb)
- Active participle: مُهْتَضِب (muhtaḍib)
- Passive participle: مُهْتَضَب (muhtaḍab)
- Form X: اِسْتَهْضَبَ (istahḍaba, “to become formed (a hill)”)
- Verbal noun: اِسْتِهْضَاب (istihḍāb)
- Active participle: مُسْتَهْضِب (mustahḍib)
- Passive participle: مُسْتَهْضَب (mustahḍab)
- هَضِيب (haḍīb, “giving too little milk”)
- هُضُوبَة f (huḍūba, “single rain serving irrigation”)
- هَضْبَة f (haḍba, “rain; hill, plateau”)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1837), “ه ض ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 394
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ه ض ب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1425
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ه ض ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1351