دولاب

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian دولاب (dulâb, dolâb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː.laːb/, /daw.laːb/

Noun

دُولَاب or دَوْلَاب • (dūlāb or dawlāb) m (plural دَوَالِيب (dawālīb))

1. water-wheel
   • a. 896, Ibn ar-Rũmīy, يا سائلي عن مجمع اللذات …‎^[1]:

     ومتِّع العين بها مَليَّا – وأطبق الخبزَ وكلْ هنيّا
     طوراً تُرى كفِلكةِ الدولاب – وتارةً كعسجدِ الذُّؤابِ

     And bespin the eye with it for long – layer bread, beget bare throng!
     Lots, looks like a hench waterwheel – strings of gold, clumps for real!

   • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎^[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 208 line 8:

     والقادوس كوز الدولاب

     And bucket is the dipper of a water-wheel.

2. wheel
3. tire
4. gears, machinery
5. closet, cupboard (in Egypt and Levant)

Declension

Declension of noun دُولَاب (dūlāb)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُولَاب dūlāb	الدُّولَاب ad-dūlāb	دُولَاب dūlāb
Nominative	دُولَابٌ dūlābun	الدُّولَابُ ad-dūlābu	دُولَابُ dūlābu
Accusative	دُولَابًا dūlāban	الدُّولَابَ ad-dūlāba	دُولَابَ dūlāba
Genitive	دُولَابٍ dūlābin	الدُّولَابِ ad-dūlābi	دُولَابِ dūlābi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُولَابَيْن dūlābayn	الدُّولَابَيْن ad-dūlābayn	دُولَابَيْ dūlābay
Nominative	دُولَابَانِ dūlābāni	الدُّولَابَانِ ad-dūlābāni	دُولَابَا dūlābā
Accusative	دُولَابَيْنِ dūlābayni	الدُّولَابَيْنِ ad-dūlābayni	دُولَابَيْ dūlābay
Genitive	دُولَابَيْنِ dūlābayni	الدُّولَابَيْنِ ad-dūlābayni	دُولَابَيْ dūlābay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَوَالِيب dawālīb	الدَّوَالِيب ad-dawālīb	دَوَالِيب dawālīb
Nominative	دَوَالِيبُ dawālību	الدَّوَالِيبُ ad-dawālību	دَوَالِيبُ dawālību
Accusative	دَوَالِيبَ dawālība	الدَّوَالِيبَ ad-dawālība	دَوَالِيبَ dawālība
Genitive	دَوَالِيبَ dawālība	الدَّوَالِيبِ ad-dawālībi	دَوَالِيبِ dawālībi

References

• Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “دولاب”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دولاب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “دولاب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate

Azerbaijani

Noun

دولاب (dolab) (definite accusative دولابی (dolabı), plural دولابلار (dolablar))

1. Arabic spelling of dolab (“closet”)

Declension

Declension of دولاب

	singular	plural
nominative	دولاب	دولابلار
definite accusative	دولابێ	دولابلارێ
dative	دولابا	دولابلارا
locative	دولابدا	دولابلاردا
ablative	دولابدان	دولابلاردان
definite genitive	دولابێن	دولابلارێن

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Persian دولاب (dolâb, “closet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːˈlaːb/

Noun

دولاب • (dōlāb) m (plural دَوَاليب (dawālīb))

1. closet

Persian

Etymology 1

Perhaps from دو (do, “two”) +‎ لاب (lâb, “split, cleft; half”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [du.lɑːβ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪u.lɔːb̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪o.lɒːb̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪u.lɔb]

Readings
Classical reading?	dulāḇ
Dari reading?	dulāb
Iranian reading?	dolâb
Tajik reading?	dulob

Noun

دولاب • (dolâb)

1. (now dialectal) cupboard; closet
3. trick, fraud, machination

Descendants

• → Armenian: դոլաբ (dolab)
• → Azerbaijani: dolab
• → Central Kurdish: [script needed] (dołab)
• → Northern Kurdish: dolab, dolap, dolav
• → Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)
  • Turkish: dolap
  • → Albanian: dollap
  • → Bulgarian: дола́п (doláp)
  • → Romanian: dulap
  • → Greek: ντουλάπι (ntoulápi)
  • → Ladino: dolap
  • → Serbo-Croatian: dòlāp

Etymology 2

From دول (dul) +‎ آب (âb), or from earlier دلوآب (dalv-âb), from دلو (dalv) + آب (âb), or this is an analogic formation. The vocalism dowlâb is reborrowed from Arabic دَوْلَاب (dawlāb).

Noun

دولاب • (dulâb, dowlâb) (plural دولاب‌ها (dulâb, dowlâb-hâ))

1. (archaic) water wheel; draw-well
   1. (archaic) Persian wheel
   • 1045-1052, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama

     بر آب دولاب های بسیار ساخته اند.

     bar âb dulâb-hâye basyâr sâxta-and.

     [O]ver [the Orontes] river they have built many water wheels.

Descendants

• → Arabic: دَوْلَاب (dawlāb)
• → Middle Armenian: դօլապ (dōlap), տոլապ (tolap)
• → Old Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi)
  • Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)