أسباب

See also: اسپات and استأت

Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔas.baːb/

Noun

أَسْبَاب (ʾasbāb) m pl

  1. plural of سَبَب (sabab)

Etymology 2

From Ge'ez አስባብ (ʾäsbab, guards).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔas.baːb/

Noun

أَسْبَاب • (ʾasbāb) m pl

(hapax legomenon)
  1. guards, guardhouse, watchtower
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 40:36:
      وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يٰهٰمَٰنُ ٱِبْنِ لِي صَرْحًا لَّعَلِّي أَبْلُغُ الْأَسْبٰبَ
      waqāla firʿawnu yāhāmānu ibni lī ṣarḥan llaʿallī ʾabluḡu l-ʾasbāba
      And Pharaoh said: O Haman! Build me a tower that I may reach the guardians [of heaven]!
Declension

References

  • Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, col. 359
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 483
  • Margoliouth, David Samuel (1939), “Some Additions to Professor Jeffery’s Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾan”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, issue 1, DOI:10.2307/25201836, pages 58–59
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