دولاب

Arabic

(etymology 1)

(etymology 2)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː.laːb/, /daw.laːb/

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH

Classical Persian دو (dō)

Classical Persian لَاب (lāb)

?

Classical Persian دولَاب (dōlāb)bor.

Arabic دولاب

Borrowed from Classical Persian دولَاب (dōlāb), possibly from دو (dō, “two”) + لَاب (lāb, “split, cleft; half”).

Noun

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

1. closet, cupboard

   Synonyms: خِزَانَة (ḵizāna), صِوَان (ṣiwān)

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

Descendants

• → Amharic: ዱላብ (dulab)

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Classical Persian دول (dōl)

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-der.

Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hā́ps

Proto-Iranian *Hā́fš

Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹𐎠 (a-p-i-y-a)

Middle Persian ʾp̄

Classical Persian آب (āb)

Classical Persian دولَاب (dōlāb)bor.

Arabic دولاب

Borrowed from Classical Persian دولَاب (dōlāb), from دول (dōl) + آب (āb).

Noun

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

1. water-wheel

   Synonyms: نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), سَانِيَة (sāniya), دَالِيَة (dāliya), سَاقِيَة (sāqiya)

   • 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.

   • a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد [ʾāṯār al-bilād wa-ʾaḵbār al-ʿibād]‎^[3], Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1848, →DOI, page 381 line 8 a fine:
2. wheel
3. tire
4. gears, machinery

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 (1863-1893), “دولاب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020), “دولاب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 308

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH

Classical Persian دو (dō)

Classical Persian لَاب (lāb)

?

Classical Persian دولَاب (dōlāb)bor.

Arabic دَوْلَاب (dawlāb)

Hijazi Arabic دولاب

Inherited from Arabic دَوْلَاب (dawlāb), borrowed from Classical Persian دولَاب (dōlāb), possibly from دو (dō, “two”) + لَاب (lāb, “split, cleft; half”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːˈlaːb/

Noun

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

1. closet

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Classical Persian دول (dōl)

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-der.

Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hā́ps

Proto-Iranian *Hā́fš

Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹𐎠 (a-p-i-y-a)

Middle Persian ʾp̄

Classical Persian آب (āb)

Classical Persian دولَاب (dōlāb)bor.

Arabic دُولَاب (dūlāb)

North Levantine Arabic دولاب

Inherited from Arabic دُولَاب (dūlāb), borrowed from Classical Persian دولَاب (dōlāb), from دول (dōl) + آب (āb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː.laːb/
• (Imāla) IPA^(key): [-ˈleːb ~ -ˈlɛːb]

Noun

دولاب • (dūlāb) m (plural دواليب (dawālīb))

1. wheel
2. tyre

Persian

Etymology 1

Perhaps from دو (do, “two”) +‎ لاب (lâb, “split, cleft; half”), the latter a lengthened e-grade of the root underlying لب (lab, “lip; edge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /du.ˈlaːb/

 

• (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?	dulāb
Dari reading?	dulāb
Iranian reading?	dolâb
Tajik reading?	dulob

Noun

دولاب • (dolâb)

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

Descendants

• → Arabic: دُولَاب (dūlāb)
  • → Amharic: ዱላብ (dulab)
• → 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)

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