ذهب

See also: دہت and ذ ه ب

Arabic

Root
ذ ه ب (ḏ-h-b)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ða.ha.ba/
  • IPA(key): /ðah.ha.ba/
  • IPA(key): /ða.hab/,
    (file)

Verb

ذَهَبَ • (ḏahaba) I, non-past يَذْهَبُ‎ (yaḏhabu)

  1. to go, to travel
    إِلَى أَيْنَ أَنْتَ ذَاهِبٌ؟
    ʔilā ʔayna ʔanta ḏāhibun?
    Where are you going?
  2. to go away, to leave, to depart
  3. to disappear, to vanish
  4. to decline, to dwindle
  5. to perish, to die, to be destroyed
  6. to abduct, to steal, to sweep away, to annihilate [+ بِ (object)]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:أفنى
  7. to lead someone, to conduct someone, to take someone along
  8. to think, to believe, to hold the view, to be of the opinion [+ إَلَى (object) = that]
    • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān], volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, page 37, line 9:
      فأمّا الْبَرِيد ففيه خلاف وذهب قوم إلى أنه بالبادية اثنا عشر ميلا وبالشام وخراسان ستة أميال
      About the postal route there is disagreement. Folks believed that in the desert it is twelve miles and in Syria and Khorasan six miles.
  9. to escape, to slip, to lose sight of, to be forgotten [+ عَن (object) = by]
  10. to ignore, to skip, to omit [+ عَن (object) = what]
  11. to prepare to, to be about to

Conjugation

Verb

ذَهَّبَ • (ḏahhaba) II, non-past يُذَهِّبُ‎ (yuḏahhibu)

  1. to gild

Conjugation

ذَهَبَ

Noun

ذَهَب • (ḏahab) m

  1. (uncountable) gold
    Synonyms: عَسْجَد (ʕasjad), تِبْر (tibr), إِبْرِيز (ʔibrīz)
  2. (uncountable) gold coin

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Maltese: deheb
  • Gulf Arabic: ذَهَب (ḏəhəb)
  • Hijazi Arabic: ذَهَب (dahab)
  • South Levantine Arabic: ذَهَب (dáhab)
  • Afar: daháb
  • Azerbaijani: zəhəb
  • Persian: ذهب (zahab)
  • Somali: dahab
  • Swahili: dhahabu

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

  • (Kuwait) IPA(key): /ˈðə.həb/

Noun

ذهب • (ḏahab) m

  1. (uncountable) gold

Hijazi Arabic

ذَهَبَ

Etymology

From Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /da.hab/, /ða.hab/

Noun

ذَهَب • (dahab) m

  1. gold

Usage notes

Both pronunciations are used by most speakers interchangeably.

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [zä.ɦǽb]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [zɑːǽb]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [zɔːǽb̥]

Readings
Classical reading? ḏahaḇ, zahaḇ
Dari reading? zahab
Iranian reading? zahab
Tajik reading? zahab

Noun

Dari ذهب
Iranian Persian
Tajik заҳаб

ذهب • (zahab)

  1. Synonym of طلا (gold)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /da.hab/, [ˈda.hab]
  • (file)

Noun

ذهب • (dáhab) m

  1. (uncountable) gold

Derived terms

  • ذهبي (dahabi, gold, golden (color))
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