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صبح

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Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

Noun

صُبْح (ṣubḥ) m (plural أَصْبَاح (ʔaṣbāḥ))

  1. (chiefly Modern Standard Arabic) the time from sunrise to noon, morning
    Synonym: (literary) ضَحْوَة (ḍaḥwa, forenoon)
  2. (archaic) the time from morning twilight to sunrise, dayspring
    Synonym: فَجْر (fajr, dawn)
    1. (Islam) the first of the five obligatory Islamic daily prayers, the daybreak prayer
      Synonym: فَجْر (fajr, the dawn prayer)
Declension
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Descendants

Etymology 1.2

Verb

صَبَحَ (ṣabaḥa) I (non-past يَصْبَحُ (yaṣbaḥu), verbal noun صَبْح (ṣabḥ))

  1. to offer a morning draught to (someone)
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

Etymology 1.3

Verb

صَبُحَ (ṣabuḥa) I (non-past يَصْبُحُ (yaṣbuḥu), verbal noun صَبَاحَة (ṣabāḥa))

  1. to be beautiful, to be handsome, to be pretty
  2. to be graceful
  3. to beam, to be radiant
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

Etymology 1.4

Verb

صَبَّحَ (ṣabbaḥa) II (non-past يُصَبِّحُ (yuṣabbiḥu), verbal noun تَصْبِيح (taṣbīḥ))

  1. to offer a morning draught
  2. to come in the morning
  3. to wish a good morning
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

Etymology 1.5

Noun

صَبْح (ṣabḥ) m

  1. verbal noun of صَبَحَ (ṣabaḥa) (form I)
Declension
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Etymology 2.1

Verb

صَبِحَ (ṣabiḥa) I (non-past يَصْبَحُ (yaṣbaḥu), verbal noun صَبَح (ṣabaḥ) or صُبْحَة (ṣubḥa)) (Classical Arabic)

  1. to be reddish, have reddish locks among grey hair
    Synonyms: اِصْبَاحَّ (iṣbāḥḥa), صَهِبَ (ṣahiba)
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

Etymology 2.2

Noun

صَبَح (ṣabaḥ) m

  1. verbal noun of صَبِحَ (ṣabiḥa, to have reddish locks among grey hair) (form I)
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References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), “صبح”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 475–476
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “صبح”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1303–1304
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “صبح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “صبح”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 692–693
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Gujarati

Noun

صبح (subah) f

  1. Lisan ud-Dawat spelling of સુબહ (subah, morning)

Malay

Noun

صبح (plural صبح-صبح or صبح٢)

  1. Jawi spelling of subuh.‎

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

Pronunciation

 
 

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Noun

صبح (subh / sobh) (Tajik spelling субҳ)

  1. morning
    Synonyms: صباح (sabāh / sabâh), بامداد (bāmdād / bâmdâd)

Derived terms

Descendants

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South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤubħ/, [ˈsˤʊ.b(o)ħ]
  • Audio (Amman):(file)

Noun

صبح (ṣubḥ) m

  1. morning

See also

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian صبح (subh), from Arabic صُبْح (ṣubḥ).

Pronunciation

Noun

صُبْح (subh) f (Hindi spelling सुबह)

  1. morning
    Antonym: شام (śām)
  2. dawn
    Synonym: سَویرا (saverā)
  3. (figuratively, Islam) fajrsalat (the dawn prayer).

Declension

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Adverb

صبح (subah) (Hindi spelling सुबह)

  1. in the morning

Further reading

  • صبح”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • صبح”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “صبح”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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