تب

See also: بت, پت, بَٹ, and بٞٹ

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ت ب ب (t-b-b)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tab.ba/

Verb

تَبَّ • (tabba) I, non-past يَتِبُّ‎ (yatibbu)

  1. to perish, to be ruined
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 111:1:
      تَبَّتْ يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ
      tabbat yadā ʔabī lahabin watabba
      May the hands of The Father of The Fire be ruined, and ruined is he.
  2. (transitive) to decimate, to annihilate, to destroy
Conjugation
Synonyms

Noun

تَبّ • (tabb) m

  1. verbal noun of تَبَّ (tabba) (form I)
Declension
Derived terms
  • تَبًّا (tabban)
  • تَبًّا لَكَ (tabban laka)

Verb

تُبْ • (tub) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of تَابَ (tāba)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (tp /⁠tab⁠/, fever), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tépos (heat, warmth). Related to Sanskrit तपस् (tapas), and Old Armenian տապ (tap, heat), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäb]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäw]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäw], [t̪ʰeːw]

Readings
Classical reading? taḇ
Dari reading? tab
Iranian reading? tab
Tajik reading? tab

Noun

تب • (tab)

  1. fever

References

Urdu

Etymology

From Sanskrit (ta, this; that) + एवम् एव (evam eva, just so).

Pronunciation

Adverb

تَب • (tab) (Hindi spelling तब)

  1. then
    Synonym: تَتْکالِین (tatkālīn)
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