talab

English

Etymology

Hindi तालाब (tālāb), from Persian تالاب (tâlâb).

Noun

talab (plural talabs)

1. (Middle East, India, Pakistan) a pond for harvesting rainwater.
   • 2009 September 13, Rick Westhead, “India: Will the tap run dry?”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     Harish, whose foundation provides villages with some of the building costs for tankas and talabs, grins as she relates the story.

Anagrams

• Balta, Labat, tabla

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧lab

Noun

talab

1. a pen shell; any member of the family Pinnidae

Anagrams

• balat, latab, tabla

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic طَلَبَ (ṭalaba, “to demand, ask, beg”). Though the Arabic verb can mean “to ask God in prayer”, the general sense “to pray” is not present. In Maltese, it is probably a semantic influence from Italo-Romance, where the descendant of Latin precari is used both for “to ask, beg” and “to pray”; compare Italian pregare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtalap/

Verb

talab (imperfect jitlob, past participle mitlub)

1. to ask for; to request; to beg
2. to pray; to be in prayer

Conjugation

Conjugation of talab
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	tlabt	tlabt	talab		tlabna	talbtu	talbu
	f			talbet
imperfect	m	nitlob	titlob	jitlob		nitolbu	titolbu	jitolbu
	f			titlob
imperative			itlob				itolbu

Derived terms

• talba

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Tagalog

Adjective

taláb

1. effective (said of medicine, advice, etc.)

Anagrams

• balat, tabal, tabla