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, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, 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 (in Egypt and Levant)

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, 2nd 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

Azerbaijani

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

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Persian دولاب (dolâb, “closet”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /doːˈlaːb/

Noun

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

  1. closet

Persian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d̪u.lɔːb̥]

Readings
Classical reading? dulāḇ
Dari reading? dulāb
Iranian reading? dolâb
Tajik reading? dulob

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)

Etymology 2

From دول (dul) +‎ آب (âb), or from earlier دلوآب (dalv-âb), 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 âb dulâb-hâye basyâr sâxta-and.
      [O]ver [the Orontes] river they have built many water wheels.
Descendants
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