دولاب

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Arabic

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /duː.laːb/, /daw.laːb/

Etymology 1

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دُولَاب

From Persian دولاب (dolâb).

Noun

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دُولَاب or دَوْلَاب (dūlāb or dawlābm (plural دَوَالِيب (dawālīb))

  1. closet, cupboard
    Synonyms: خِزَانَة (ḵizāna), صِوَان (ṣiwān)
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Descendants
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  • Amharic: ዱላብ (dulab)

Etymology 2

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دَوْلَاب

From Classical Persian دولاب (dōlāb).

Noun

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دُولَاب or دَوْلَاب (dūlāb or dawlābm (plural دَوَالِيب (dawālīb))

  1. water-wheel
    Synonyms: نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), سَانِيَة (sāniya), دَالِيَة (dāliya), سَاقِيَة (sāqiya)
  2. wheel
  3. tire
  4. gears, machinery
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References

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  • Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “دولاب”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd 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[4], 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

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Noun

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

  1. Arabic spelling of dolab (closet)

Declension

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Hijazi Arabic

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Etymology

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From Persian دولاب (dolâb, closet).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دولاب (dōlābm (plural دَوَاليب (dawālīb))

  1. closet

Persian

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Etymology 1

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Perhaps from دو (do, two) +‎ لاب (lâb, split, cleft; half), the latter a lengthened e-grade of the root underlying لب (lab, lip; edge).[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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دولاب (dolâb)

  1. (now dialectal) cupboard; closet
  2. trick, fraud, machination
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Etymology 2

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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

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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.
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References

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  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*¹lap-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 68