اب
Root: اب
3 entries for this word
Hans Wehr Definitions
Entry 1
اب see ابو
Entry 2
اب abba u to long, yearn, (إلى وطنه ilā waṯanihi for one‘s homeland)
Entry 3
اب ab pl. آباء aba‘ father (also eccl.): ancestor, forefather: يا ابت yā abati O my father! الابوان al-abawān the parents, father and mother; ابونا abūnā reverend father, form of address and title of a priest (Chr). │ابا عن جد aban ‘an jaddin handed down from father to son, as s.th. inherited from forefathers; ابو سعن abū su’n marabou; ابو النوم abū n-naum poppy; ابو الهول abū l-haul the Sphinx; ابو اليقظان abū l-yaqẓān rooster, cock
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