Arabic

Verb

جَبَّ • ‎(jabba) I, non-past يَجُبُّ‎ (yajubbu)

1. to sever, to notch, to cut, to chop off, to lop off, to truncate
2. to beat down the leaves
3. to fructify the fruit palm
4. to surpass, to overcome, to vanquish

Conjugation

References

• “جب” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “جب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

Noun

جُبّ • ‎(jubb) m ‎(plural أَجْبَاب ‎(ʾajbāb) or جِبَاب ‎(jibāb))

1. cistern, well
2. pit, fosse, cavity
3. pothole, chuckhole

Declension

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] ‎(cübb)
  • Serbo-Croatian: búdža / бу́џа
• Maltese: ġiebja
• Spanish: aljibe

Etymology 2

Noun

جَبّ • ‎(jabb) m

1. verbal noun of جَبَّ ‎(jabba) (form I)

Declension

Etymology 3

Verb

جُبْ • ‎(jub) ‎(form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of جَابَ ‎(jāba)

Etymology 4

Verb

جِبْ • ‎(jib) ‎(form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of وَجَبَ ‎(wajaba)