صعب

See also: صغت

Arabic

Root
ص ع ب (ṣ-ʕ-b)

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /sˤa.ʕu.ba/

Verb

صَعُبَ • (ṣaʕuba) I, non-past يَصْعُبُ‎ (yaṣʕubu)

  1. to be hard, difficult
Conjugation
Descendants
  • Maltese: sogħob

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕb/
  • (file)

Adjective

صَعْب • (ṣaʕb) (feminine صَعْبَة (ṣaʕba), common plural صِعَاب (ṣiʕāb), elative أَصْعَب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. laborious, hard, trying, awkward, difficult, complex
Declension
Antonyms
Descendants

Pronunciation 3

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕ.ʕa.ba/

Verb

صَعَّبَ • (ṣaʕʕaba) II, non-past يُصَعِّبُ‎ (yuṣaʕʕibu)

  1. to impede
    Synonym: عَقَّدَ (ʕaqqada, to tangle)
Conjugation

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “صعب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

 
 

Readings
Classical reading? sa'b
Dari reading? sa'b
Iranian reading? sa'b
Tajik reading? saʾb

Adjective

Dari صعب
Iranian Persian
Tajik саъб

صعب • (sa'b) (comparative صعب‌تَر (sa'b-tar), superlative صعب‌تَرین (sa'b-tarin))

  1. (archaic) difficult

Synonyms

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ص ع ب
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕb/, [ˈsˤɑ.ʕ(ɪ)b]
  • (file)

Adjective

صعب • (ṣaʕb) (feminine صعبة (ṣaʕbe), masculine plural صعاب (ṣʕāb), elative أصعب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. hard, difficult
    Antonyms: سهل (sihl), هين (hayyen)

See also

  • عويص (ʕawīṣ, complicated), معقد (mʕaʔʔad, complicated)

Urdu

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

Adjective

صَعْب • (sa'b) (Hindi spelling साब)

  1. difficult, hard, arduous, troublesome, hard to be borne or endured, disagreeable, distressing
  2. refractory, untractable, disobedient, stubborn, perverse

Further reading

  • صعب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “صعب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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