شؤبوب

Arabic

Etymology

Compare the roots ش ب ب (š-b-b) and ش و ب (š-w-b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃuʔ.buːb/

Noun

شُؤْبُوب • (šuʔbūb) m (plural شَآبِيب (šaʔābīb))

  1. shower of rain, downpour
    • c. 700, Al-Farazdaq, تضاحكت أن رأت شيبا تفرعني:
      []  الغَيْثُ يَحْفِشُ أَطْرَافَ الشَآبِيبِ كادَ الفُؤادُ تَطِيرُ الطّائِرَاتُ بِهِ مِنَ المَخافَةِ  []
      []  al-ḡayṯu yaḥfišu ʔaṭrāfa š-šaʔābībi kāda l-fuʔādu taṭīru ṭ-ṭāʔirātu bihi mina l-maḵāfati  []
      The rain gathers the ends of the showers like when birds fly in a heart from fright

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شؤبوب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 385
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “شؤبوب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1489
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شؤبوب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 625
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