جاذب

See also: حادث

Arabic

Root
ج ذ ب (j-ḏ-b)

Etymology

Derived from the active participle of جَذَبَ (jaḏaba, to attract, to captivate).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒaː.ðib/

Adjective

جَاذِب • (jāḏib) (feminine جَاذِبَة (jāḏiba), masculine plural جَاذِبُونَ (jāḏibūna), feminine plural جَاذِبَات (jāḏibāt) or جَوَاذِب (jawāḏib), elative أَجْذَب (ʔajḏab))

  1. attractive
  2. (figurative) magnetic
  3. winning, engaging
  4. charming, enticing, captivating

Declension

Derived terms

References

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