غاب

Arabic

Etymology

From the root غ ي ب (ḡ-y-b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣaː.ba/

Verb

1. to be absent

   Antonym: حَضَرَ (ḥaḍara)

2. to become absent; to vanish, to disappear
3. to set; to go down (of the sun, the moon, etc.)

Descendants

• Maltese: għeb

Verb

1. to backbite, to speak badly of an absent person.

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “غاب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 232–233
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غاب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 304
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “غاب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2312
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “غاب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 767
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غاب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 806

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South Levantine Arabic

Root
غ ي ب
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic غَابَ (ḡāba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣaːb/, [ɣæːb]

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Verb

غاب • (ḡāb) I (present بغيب (biḡīb))

1. to be absent

   Antonym: حضر (ḥiḍir)

Conjugation

Conjugation of غاب (ḡāb)
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
past	m	غبت (ḡibt)	غبت (ḡibt)	غاب (ḡāb)		غبنا (ḡibna)	غبتو (ḡibtu)	غابو (ḡābu)
	f		غبتي (ḡibti)	غابت (ḡābat)
present	m	بغيب (baḡīb)	بتغيب (bitḡīb)	بغيب (biḡīb)		منغيب (minḡīb)	بتغيبو (bitḡību)	بغيبو (biḡību)
	f		بتغيبي (bitḡībi)	بتغيب (bitḡīb)
subjunctive	m	اغيب (aḡīb)	تغيب (tḡīb)	يغيب (yḡīb)		نغيب (nḡīb)	تغيبو (tḡību)	يغيبو (yḡību)
	f		تغيبي (tḡībi)	تغيب (tḡīb)
imperative	m		غيب (ḡīb)				غيبو (ḡību)
	f		غيبي (ḡībi)