شعب

شَعَبَ • (šaʕaba) I, non-past يَشْعَبُ‎ (yašʕabu)

1. to gather, unite
2. to mend
3. to disperse
4. to split, cut
5. to spoil, injure
6. to get separated
7. to leave one's people
8. to appear

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

شَعِبَ • (šaʕiba) I, non-past يَشْعَبُ‎ (yašʕabu)

1. to be broad in the shoulders
2. to have a large space between the horns

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

شَعَّبَ • (šaʕʕaba) II, non-past يُشَعِّبُ‎ (yušaʕʕibu)

1. to split, divide, ramify
2. to beat the tail to the right and left

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʕb/

شَعْب • (šaʕb) m (plural شُعُوب (šuʕūb))

1. verbal noun of شَعَبَ (šaʕaba, “to gather, unite”) (form I)
2. tribe, race
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:13:

     يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. a people, nation
4. distance
5. split, cleft
6. gathering, uniting
7. mending
8. dispersing
9. splitting, cutting
10. spoiling, injury
11. getting separated
12. leaving one's people
13. appearance (act of appearing)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /ʃiʕb/

شِعْب • (šiʕb) m (plural شِعَاب (šiʕāb))

1. mountain path, path
2. cleft, narrow path, valley, watercourse

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /ʃuʕab/

شُعَب • (šuʕab) pl

1. plural of شعبَة

شَعَب • (šaʕab) m

1. verbal noun of شَعِبَ (šaʕiba) (form I)

From Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /ʃoʔæb/

شعب • (šo'ab)

1. plural of شعبه

From Arabic شَعْب (šaʕb).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʕb/, [ʃaʕb]

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شعب • (šaʕb) m (plural شعوب (šʕūb))

1. people (of a country)