ه د ب

Arabic

Root

ه د ب • (h-d-b)

1. related to fringes, frills

Derived terms

• Form I: هَدَبَ (hadaba, “to cull, to abscind, to pluck”)
  • Verbal noun: هَدْب (hadb)
  • Active participle: هَادِب (hādib)
  • Passive participle: مَهْدُوب (mahdūb)
• Form I: هَدِبَ (hadiba, “to have long lashes, to be endowed with prominent fringes, to have long cilia”)
  • Verbal noun: هَدَب (hadab)
  • Active participle: هَادِب (hādib)
• Form IV: أَهْدَبَ (ʔahdaba, “to have long lashes, to be endowed with prominent fringes, to have long cilia”)
  • Verbal noun: إِهْدَاب (ʔihdāb)
  • Active participle: مُهْدِب (muhdib)

• أَهْدَب (ʔahdab, “having long lashes”)
• هُدَّاب (huddāb, “fringe, frill”)
• هُدُب (hudub) and هُدْب (hudb, “lash, frill, fringe”)
• هَدَب (hadab, “twisted leaves or sprigs; cilium”)
• هَيْدَب (haydab, “frill, fringe”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ه د ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 374–375
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ه د ب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 1168
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ه د ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1342