هيبة

Arabic

Root
ه ي ب (h-y-b)

Etymology

Instance noun from هَابَ‎ (hāba, “to fear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haj.ba/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /haj.ba/, /hiː.ba/

Noun

هَيْبَة • (hayba) f

1. fear, awe, dread
2. prestige, majesty, grandeur, stateliness

Declension

Declension of noun هَيْبَة (hayba)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	هَيْبَة hayba	الْهَيْبَة al-hayba	هَيْبَة haybat
Nominative	هَيْبَةٌ haybatun	الْهَيْبَةُ al-haybatu	هَيْبَةُ haybatu
Accusative	هَيْبَةً haybatan	الْهَيْبَةَ al-haybata	هَيْبَةَ haybata
Genitive	هَيْبَةٍ haybatin	الْهَيْبَةِ al-haybati	هَيْبَةِ haybati

Descendants

• → Moroccan Arabic: هيبة (hayba, hība)
  • → Ladino: hiba (Haketia)
• → Azerbaijani: heybət
• → Bashkir: һәйбәт (həybət)
• → Kazakh: әйбат (äibat)
• → Kumyk: айбат (aybat)
• → Tatar: әйбәт (äybät)
• → Persian: هیبت
• → Ottoman Turkish: هیبت (heybet)
  • → Turkish: heybet
• → Swahili: haiba
• → Uzbek: haybat

References

• Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “هيبة”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “هيبة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “هيبة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “هيبة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz