تناوب

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Morphologically from the root ن و ب (n-w-b).

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

تَنَاوَبَ (tanāwaba) VI, non-past يَتَنَاوَبُ‎ (yatanāwabu)

  1. (intransitive) to take turns, to alternate
    • 2007, Ilʹjá Frank with Jevgénija Safónova, Denís Nekljúdov, “عناد [Stubbornness]”, in Ара́бский язы́к с Джохо́й - Ме́тод чте́ния Ильи́ Фра́нка (Arábskij jazýk s Džoxój - Métod čténija Ilʹí Fránka) [The Arabic language with Joha - The Reading Method by Ilya Frank] (overall work in Russian):
      اِعْتَادَ جُحَا أَنْ يَتَنَاوَبَ مَعَ زَوْجَتِهِ تَقْدِيمِ الطَّعَامِ إِلَى الْحِمَارِ...
      iʕtāda juḥā ʔan yatanāwaba maʕa zawjatihi taqdīmi ṭ-ṭaʕāmi ʔilā l-ḥimāri...
      Joha used to take turns giving food to the donkey with his wife...
Conjugation[edit]

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

تَنَاوُب (tanāwubm

  1. verbal noun of تَنَاوَبَ (tanāwaba) (form VI)
Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نوب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN