عب

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See also: غب and غث

Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Root
ع ب ب (ʕ-b-b)

Verb[edit]

عَبَّ (ʕabba) I, non-past يَعُبُّ‎ (yaʕubbu)

  1. to gulp, to chug down
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 58:
      وهي الساعة التي يكون فيها مزاجه رائقاً بعد أن يكون قد عبّ ثلاثة أقداح من الويسكي.
      It was the hour where he had a buoyant mood already after swigging three stoops of whiskey.
Conjugation[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Considered a vulgar word; probably from Aramaic עוּבָּא / עֻבָּא / ܥܘܒܐ (ʿubbā), broader of meaning: “bosom, lap; any enclosed space; calyx …”. Doublet of غُبّ (ḡubb, depressed terrain; bosom of the sea). جَيْب (jayb, pocket) is similarly suspect of being an Aramaic borrowing.

Noun[edit]

عُبّ or عِبّ (ʕubb or ʕibbm

  1. breast pocket, a pocket in a shirt higher than a جَيْب (jayb)
Declension[edit]