باب

 

Usually considered a borrowing from Aramaic בָּבָא (bāḇā, “gate”), from Akkadian 𒆍 (bābum, “gate”), particularly since the Arabs, living in tents, did not need doors. However, Hans Bauer considers all of these words native, explaining the formation as an ancient univerbation of etyma equivalent to Arabic بَاءَ (bāʔa) بِ (bi) “he has entered into (the house)”.

• IPA^(key): /baːb/

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بَاب • (bāb) m (plural أَبْوَاب (ʔabwāb) or بِيبَان (bībān))

1. door, gate
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:58:

     وَادْخُلُوا الْبَابَ سُجَّدًا وَقُولُوا حِطَّةٌ

     wādḵulū al-bāba sujjadan waqūlū ḥiṭṭatun

     [And] enter the gate with humility [...]

2. opening, gateway
3. entrance
4. gullet, weasand
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 33, Art. 10, page 677 line 6:

     وقد تخرج للدابة من حنكها ويسمي التحنيك وصفة العمل في ذلك إذا أحنكت الدابة فأفتح لها من الدرجة الثالثة والرابعة ولا تفتح لها قرب الباب لأن الدم ربما عسر إمساكه فتلف الدابة.

     One may extract the blood from the jaw of a beast and it is called taḥnīk and the operation consists in that you have bound the beast with a chinstrap and now cut it open to the third or fourth degree but don’t open it close the throat as it may be difficult to contain the blood and the beast will succumb.

5. opportunity, a chance, opening
6. military tactic, maneuver, an opening to use a strategy
7. chapter, section, column
8. group, class, category
9. (astronomy) appearance of an astronomical body, a juncture, an opening to observe
10. (figurative) domain, field

• مِنْ بَابِ أَوْلَى (min bābi ʔawlā)
• مَقْبِض الْبَاب (maqbiḍ al-bāb, “doorknob”)
• بَابَة (bāba)
• بَوَّاب (bawwāb)
• بَوَّابَة (bawwāba)
• تَبْوِيب (tabwīb)
• مُبَوَّب (mubawwab)

• Maltese: bieb
• → Middle Armenian: պապ (pap), բաբ (bab)
• → Malay: bab
  • Indonesian: bab
• → Persian: باب
• → Ottoman Turkish: باب (bab)
  • Turkish: bap
• → Turkmen: bap

• Bauer, Hans (1935) “Etymologica II”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 10, page 165
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 14
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “باب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 170
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 74
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “باب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 101
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “باب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 30

From Arabic بَاب (bāb).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbæːb]

باب • (bāb) m (plural بيبان (bibā́n))

1. door

باب (plural باب-باب or باب۲, informal 1st possessive بابکو, 2nd possessive بابمو, 3rd possessive بابڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of bab‎

From Arabic بَاب (bāb).

• IPA^(key): /baːb/

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باب • (bāb) m or f (plural بيبان (bībān) or بواب (bwāb))

1. door, gate

باب • (bâb)

1. appropriate

Borrowed from Arabic بَاب (bāb).

باب • (bâb) (plural باب‌ها (bâb-hâ))

1. door
2. gate
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3763:

     چون تو بابی آن مدینه‌‌ی علم را
     چون شعاعی آفتاب حلم را

     čōn tū bāb-ī ān madīna-i 'ilm rā
     čōn šu'ā'ī āftāb-i hilm rā

     Since thou art the gate of the city of Knowledge,
     since thou art the beams of the sun of Clemency

3. chapter

باب • (bâb)

1. the Báb

• در (dar)

• بابی (bâbi)

باب • (bâb)

1. (archaic) father

Borrowed from English Bob.

باب • (bâb)

1. A transliteration of the English male given name diminutive Bob

   باب اسفنجی ― bâb esfanji ― SpongeBob

   باب دیلن ― bâb dilen ― Bob Dylan

From Arabic بَاب (bāb).

• IPA^(key): /baːb/, [bæːb]

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باب • (bāb) m (plural بواب (bwāb))

1. door
2. gate

   Synonym: بوابة (bawwābe)

3. entrance

   Synonym: مدخل (madḵal)