ġab

• ġieb

From common dialectal Arabic جَاب‎ (jāb), from a univerbation of جاءَ بِ‎ (jāʔa bi-, literally “to come with”). By surface analysis, ġie +‎ b’. The vowel -a- is irregular; the expected form is the less common variant ġieb.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaːp/

ġab (imperfect jġib, past participle miġjub, verbal noun ġejbien)

1. to bring, to carry
2. to procure, to cause
3. to fetch (a price), to sell for
4. to form, to give shape (to something)
5. to work out, to form, to calculate; to guess, to succeed
6. to turn, to change (something)
7. to translate
8. to render (something) [+b']
9. to publish, to make public (in newspapers); to expose to people's gossip
10. to imagine
11. to esteem
12. (reflexive) to behave
13. (reflexive) to grow
14. to cause sexual orgasm