جب

From the root ج ب ب‎ (j-b-b). Related to Classical Syriac ܓܘܒܐ‎ (gubbā).

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 castrate entirely, to cut off a man's penis
4. to fructify the fruit palm
5. to surpass, to overcome, to vanquish

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

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

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• → Old Galician-Portuguese: aljube
  • Galician: alxibe
  • Portuguese: algibe, algibé
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: búdža / бу́џа
• → Spanish: aljibe
• → Catalan: aljub
• → Sicilian: gebbia

جَبّ • (jabb) m

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جُبْ • (jub) (form I)

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

جِبْ • (jib) (form I)

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

From اب‎ (ab, “now”). Cognate with Punjabi ਜਦੋਂ (jadõ) / جدوں‎ (jadõ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəb/

جب • (jab) (Hindi spelling जब)

1. when (non-interrogative)

• جبھی‎ (jabhī)

• “جب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.