محب

Derived from the active participle of the verb أَحَبَّ (ʔaḥabba, “to love”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.ħibb/

مُحِبّ • (muḥibb) m (plural مُحِبُّون (muḥibbūn), feminine مُحِبَّة (muḥibba))

1. active participle of أَحَبَّ (ʔaḥabba)
2. lover

• → Azerbaijani: mühib
• → Ottoman Turkish: مُحِبّ (muhıbb)
  • Turkish: muhip
• → Persian: مُحِبّ (mohebb)
• → Uzbek: muhib

مُحِبّ • (muḥibb) m

1. a male given name, Muhib

Derived from the passive participle of the verb أَحَبَّ (ʔaḥabba, “to love”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.ħabb/

مُحَبّ • (muḥabb) (obsolete and rare)

1. passive participle of أَحَبَّ (ʔaḥabba): loved one
   • c. 6th century CE, ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād al-ʿAbsī, from Mu'allaqat:

     وَلَقَدْ نَزَلْتِ فَلَا تَظُنِّي غَيْرَهُ // مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ المُحَبِّ المُكْرَمِ

     walaqad nazalti falā taẓunnī ḡayrahu // minnī bimanzilati al-muḥabbi al-mukrami

     And you have occupied, have no doubt in it, // in my heart the place of loved and honored ones.

• مَحْبُوب (maḥbūb)

Borrowed from Arabic مُحِبّ (muḥibb).

مُحِبّ • (muhıbb)

1. friend
2. lover

• Turkish: muhip

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muhip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “محب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1757
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic مُحِبّ (muḥibb).

محب • (mohebb)

1. loving

محب • (mohebb)

1. lover, friend

• محبیان (mohebbiyân)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “محب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “محب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul