See also: لپ

Arabic

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Etymology

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From the root ل ب ب (l-b-b), the noun from Proto-Semitic *libb-.

Cognate with Hebrew לב (lev) and Classical Syriac ܠܒܐ (lebbā).

Noun

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لُبّ (lubbm (plural لُبُوب (lubūb))

  1. pulp, backlog, marrow, core, heart
    Synonym: (heart) قَلْب (qalb)

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Noun

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لُبّ (lubbm (plural أَلْبَاب (ʔalbāb))

  1. intellect, discernment

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Verb

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لَبَّ (labba) I (non-past يَلُبُّ (yalubbu), verbal noun لَبّ (labb))

  1. to stay, to bide, to persevere

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Verb

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لَبَّ (labba) I (first-person singular past لَبَبْتُ (lababtu), non-past يَلَبُّ (yalabbu), verbal noun لَبَب (labab)), first-person non-past لَبِبْتُ (labibtu)
لَبَّ (labba) I (non-past يَلُبُّ (yalubbu), verbal noun لَبَابَة (labāba)), first-person non-past لَبُبْتُ (labubtu)

  1. to be intelligent, to be smart

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 78
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “لب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2641
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “لب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1002
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1138
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 906

Egyptian Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic لب.

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Noun

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لب (lebbm pl

  1. kernels (specifically seed kernels)

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The singular is لبة (lebba) f, s

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  • Greek: λίμπ (límp) (Egyptiot Dialect)

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Noun

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لَب (ləb) (definite accusative لَبی, plural لَبلَر)

  1. Arabic spelling of ləb (lip)

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Persian لب (lab, lip).

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لب (leb)

  1. lip, either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth
    Synonyms: شفه (şefe), طوداق (dudak)
  2. (by extension) edge, margin, border of a thing
    Synonyms: قیی (kıyı), كنار (kenar)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic لُبّ (lubb, pith, kernel).

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لب (lubb) (plural لبوب)

  1. kernel, pith, marrow, essence
    Synonyms: اوز (öz), مخ (muh), مغز (mağz)

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Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *lab- / *lap-, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (lip, to lick).

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Readings
Classical reading? laḇ
Dari reading? lab
Iranian reading? lab
Tajik reading? lab

Noun

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Dari لب
Iranian Persian
Tajik лаб

لب (lab) (plural لبان (labân) or لب‌ها (lab-hâ))

  1. (anatomy) lip
    اگه گفتی دوستت دارم فقط بازی لب‌هات بود.
    Age gofti duset dâram faqat bâziye labhât bud.
    (colloquial) If (when) you said you love me, you weren't serious. (Literally: it was only your lip play.)
  2. edge
    Synonym: کنار (kenâr)
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Urdu

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Etymology

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PIE word
*leb-

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَب (lab). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi لب (lb /⁠lab⁠/).[1]

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لَب (labm (Hindi spelling लब)

  1. (anatomy) lip
    Synonym: ہون٘ٹ (hõṭ)
  2. upper lip, edge of the lip
  3. edge; shore; margin (ie. of a river, coast etc.)

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    Declension of لب
singular plural
direct لَب (lab) لَب (lab)
oblique لَب (lab) لَبوں (labõ)
vocative لَب (lab) لَبو (labo)

References

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  1. ^ لب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

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  • لب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “لب”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia