صعب

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Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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Root
ص ع ب (ṣ ʕ b)
4 terms

Pronunciation

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Verb

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صَعُبَ (ṣaʕuba) I (non-past يَصْعُبُ (yaṣʕubu), verbal noun صُعُوبَة (ṣuʕūba))

  1. to be hard, difficult
Conjugation
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Descendants
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  • Maltese: sogħob

Etymology 1.2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕb/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

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صَعْب (ṣaʕb) (feminine صَعْبَة (ṣaʕba), common plural صِعَاب (ṣiʕāb), elative أَصْعَب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. laborious, hard, trying, awkward, difficult, complex
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Etymology 1.3

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Verb

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صَعَّبَ (ṣaʕʕaba) II (non-past يُصَعِّبُ (yuṣaʕʕibu), verbal noun تَصْعِيب (taṣʕīb))

  1. to impede
    Synonym: عَقَّدَ (ʕaqqada, to tangle)
Conjugation
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References

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

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

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Readings
Classical reading? sa'b
Dari reading? sa'b
Iranian reading? sa'b
Tajik reading? saʾb

Adjective

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Dari صعب
Iranian Persian
Tajik саъб

صعب (sa'b) (comparative صعب‌تَر (sa'b-tar), superlative صعب‌تَرین (sa'b-tarin))

  1. (archaic) difficult
    Synonyms: دشوار (došvâr), سخت (saxt), مشکل (moškel)

South Levantine Arabic

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Root
ص ع ب
1 term

Etymology

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From Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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صعب (ṣaʕb) (feminine صعبة (ṣaʕbe), masculine plural صعاب (ṣʕāb), elative أصعب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. hard, difficult
    Antonyms: سهل (sihl), هين (hayyen)

See also

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  • عويص (ʕawīṣ, complicated), معقد (mʕaʔʔad, complicated)

Urdu

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

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Adjective

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صَعْب (sa'b) (Hindi spelling साब)

  1. difficult, hard, arduous, troublesome, hard to be borne or endured, disagreeable, distressing
  2. refractory, untractable, disobedient, stubborn, perverse

Further reading

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  • صعب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “صعب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.