صبح

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ص ب ح (ṣ-b-ḥ)

Verb[edit]

صَبَحَ (ṣabaḥa) I, non-past يَصْبَحُ‎ (yaṣbaḥu)

  1. to offer a morning draught to (someone)

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صَبُحَ (ṣabuḥa) I, non-past يَصْبُحُ‎ (yaṣbuḥu)

  1. to be beautiful, to be handsome, to be pretty
  2. to be graceful
  3. to beam, to be radiant

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صَبَحَ (ṣabaḥa) I, non-past يَصْبَحُ‎ (yaṣbaḥu) (Classical Arabic)

  1. to be reddish, have reddish locks among grey hair
    Synonyms: اِصْبَاحَّ (iṣbāḥḥa), صَهِبَ (ṣahiba)

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صَبَّحَ (ṣabbaḥa) II, non-past يُصَبِّحُ‎ (yuṣabbiḥu)

  1. to offer a morning draught
  2. to come in the morning
  3. to wish a good morning

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Noun[edit]

صُبْح (ṣubḥm (plural أَصْبَاح (ʔaṣbāḥ))

  1. (chiefly modern) the time from sunrise to noon, morning
    Synonym: (literary) ضَحْوَة (ḍaḥwa, forenoon)
  2. (archaic) the time from morning twilight to sunrise, dayspring
    Synonym: فَجْر (fajr, dawn)
    1. (Islam) the first of the five obligatory Islamic daily prayers, the daybreak prayer
      Synonym: فَجْر (fajr, the dawn prayer)

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Descendants[edit]

Noun[edit]

صَبْح (ṣabḥm

  1. verbal noun of صَبَحَ (ṣabaḥa) (form I)

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References[edit]

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “صبح”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 475–476
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “صبح”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1303–1304
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “صبح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صبح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 692–693

Gujarati[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Classical Persian صبح (subh), from Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

Noun[edit]

صبح (subahf (Standard Gujarati સુબહ) (Lisan ud-Dawat)

  1. morning, dawn

Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)
 

Readings
Classical reading? suḇh
Dari reading? subh
Iranian reading? sobh
Tajik reading? subh

Noun[edit]

Dari صبح
Iranian Persian
Tajik субҳ

صبح (sobh)

  1. morning
    Synonyms: صباح, بامداد

Usage notes[edit]

  • In standard Dari and Iranian Persian صباح and صبح are synonymous. However, in many spoken dialects, they are not, with صباح being used to mean "tomorrow". Especially in eastern dialects, such as Dari and some regional dialects in eastern Iran.

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South Levantine Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /sˤubħ/, [ˈsˤʊ.b(o)ħ]
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

صبح (ṣubḥm

  1. morning

See also[edit]

Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian صبح (subh), from Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

صُبْح (subhf (Hindi spelling सुबह)

  1. morning
    Antonym: شام (śām)
  2. dawn
    Synonym: سَویرا (saverā)
  3. (figuratively, Islam) fajrsalat (the dawn prayer).

Declension[edit]

Declension of صبح
singular plural
direct صبح (subh) صبحیں (subhẽ)
oblique صبح (subh) صبحوں (subhõ)
vocative صبح (subh) صبحو (subho)

Adverb[edit]

صبح (subah) (Hindi spelling सुबह)

  1. in the morning

Further reading[edit]

  • صبح”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • صبح”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “صبح”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.