إعراب

Arabic

Root
ع ر ب (ʕ-r-b)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔiʕ.raːb/

Noun

إِعْرَاب • (ʔiʕrāb) m (plural إِعْرَابَات (ʔiʕrābāt))

  1. verbal noun of أَعْرَبَ (ʔaʕraba) (form IV)
  2. manifestation, declaration, proclamation, pronouncement, utterance
  3. expression (of a sentiment)
  4. (grammar) desinential inflection, ʾiʿrāb
  5. syntax
  6. grammatical analysis
  7. (obsolete) obscene language towards someone, verbalized excitement of sexual lust
  8. (obsolete, vulgar) mating, particularly taking a عَرُوب (ʕarūb) as one’s partner

Declension

Antonyms

Descendants

  • Swahili: irabu (vowel)

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “إعراب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “عرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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