جیب

See also: جيب

Ottoman Turkish

جیب

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

Noun

جیب • (ceb, cep, ceyb, cib) (definite accusative جیبی (cebi), plural جیبلر (cebler, cepler), plural جیوب (cüyub, cüyup), plural جیبات (ceybat))

1. pocket, a bag- or envelop-like receptacle stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items
2. (mathematics) sine, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse

Derived terms

• جیب الماسی (ceb elması, “flirtatious person”)
• جیب دفتری (ceb defteri, “pocketbook”)
• جیب همایون (ceb-i hümayun, “the Sultan's financial resources”)
• جیبدن (cebden, “out of one's own pocket”)
• جیبه ال ایتمك (cebe el etmek, “to finance, fund”)
• جیبی (ceybî, “pertaining to a sine”)
• جیبی دلیك (cebi delik, “spendthrift, big spender”)
• ساعت جیبی (saʼat cebi, “watch pocket”)
• قوین جیبی (koyun cebi, “breast pocket, besom pocket”)
• یان جیبی (yan cebi, “fob”)

Descendants

• Turkish: cep
• → Albanian: xhep
• → Bulgarian: джоб (džob)
• → Greek: τσέπη (tsépi)
• → Hungarian: zseb
• → Ladino: djep
• → Laz: ჯები (cebi), ჟები (jebi) — Vizha, ჯებე (cebe) — Akçakoca
• → Macedonian: џеб (džeb)
• → Middle Armenian: ճէպ (čēp)
  • Armenian: ջեբ (ǰeb), ճեպ (čep), ջիբ (ǰib), ջոբ (ǰob), ջուբ (ǰub), ջիպ (ǰip), ջեպ (ǰep), ջոպ (ǰop), ջուպ (ǰup)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: џе̏п, же̏п (colloquial)

  Latin script: džȅp, žȅp (colloquial)

• → Slovene: žep

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “جیب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 547
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cep3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 778
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “جیب”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 193b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جیب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 453
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sinus vestis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1562
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “جیب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1697
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cep”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جیب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 695

Persian

Etymology

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Arabic جَيْب (jayb)bor.

Persian جیب

Borrowed from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeːb/, /ˈd͡ʒajb/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeːb], [d͡ʒäjb]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeːb], [d͡ʒäjb]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeːb], [d͡ʒäjb]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeːb̥], [d͡ʒäjb̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒiːb̥], [d͡ʒejb̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeb], [d͡ʒäjb]

Readings
Classical reading?	jēb, jayb
Dari reading?	jēb, jayb
Iranian reading?	jib, jeyb
Tajik reading?	jeb, jayb

Noun

جیب • (jēb, jayb / jib, jeyb) (Tajik spelling ҷеб, or ҷайб)

1. pocket
2. (trigonometry, mathematics, archaic) sine
4. (archaic) collar

Usage notes

The pronunciation jayb/jeyb is used with sense 3.

Descendants

• → Assamese: জেপ (zep)
• → Azerbaijani: cib
• → Bengali: জেব (jeb)
• → Georgian: ჯიბე (ǯibe)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जेब (jeb)

  Urdu: جیب (jeb), جَیب (jaib)

• → Ottoman Turkish: جیب (ceb, cep)
  • Turkish: cep
  • → Albanian: xhep
  • → Bulgarian: джоб (džob)
  • → Greek: τσέπη (tsépi)
  • → Hungarian: zseb
  • → Ladino: djep
  • → Laz: ჯები (cebi), ჟები (jebi) — Vizha, ჯებე (cebe) — Akçakoca
  • → Macedonian: џеб (džeb)
  • → Middle Armenian: ճէպ (čēp)
    • Armenian: ջեբ (ǰeb), ճեպ (čep), ջիբ (ǰib), ջոբ (ǰob), ջուբ (ǰub), ջիպ (ǰip), ջեպ (ǰep), ջոպ (ǰop), ջուպ (ǰup)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: џе̏п, же̏п (colloquial)

    Latin script: džȅp, žȅp (colloquial)

  • → Slovene: žep
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਜੇਬ (jeb)

  Shahmukhi script: جیب (jeb)

• → Turkmen: jübi

Punjabi

Etymology

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Arabic جَيْب (jayb)bor.

Classical Persian جیب (jēb)bor.

Punjabi جیب

Borrowed from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), borrowed from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeːb/, [d͡ʒeː˦bᵊ]

Noun

جیب • (jeb) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਜੇਬ)

1. pocket

   Synonyms: بوجھا (bojhā), گِیجھا (gījhā), کِھیسا (khiesā)

Declension

Declension of جیب

	singular	plural
direct	جیب (jeb)	جیباں (jebāṉ)
oblique	جیب (jeb)	جیباں (jebāṉ)
vocative	جیبے (jebe)	جیبو (jebo)
ablative	جیبوں (jeboṉ)	—
locative	جیبی (jebī)	جیبِیں (jebīṉ)
instrumental	جیبے (jebe)	جیبِیں (jebīṉ)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “جَیب”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012), “جیب”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਜੇਬ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026

Torwali

Etymology

From Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā, “tongue”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”). Cognate with Kalasha ǰhip, Hindi जीभ (jībh), Persian زبان (zabân), French langue, German Zunge.

Noun

جیب (ǰīb) f

1. tongue

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “jihvāˊ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic جَيْب (jayb)bor.

Classical Persian جیب (jēb)bor.

Urdu جیب

Borrowed from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), borrowed from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeːb/

Noun

جیب • (jeb) f

1. pocket

Declension

Declension of جیب

	singular	plural
direct	جیب (jeb)	جیبیں (jebẽ)
oblique	جیب (jeb)	جیبوں (jebõ)
vocative	جیب (jeb)	جیبو (jebo)

Further reading

• “جیب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جیب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “جیب”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

Ushojo

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu جیب (jeb), from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

Noun

جیب (jeb)

1. pocket