حبل

From Proto-Semitic *ḥabl-.

• IPA^(key): /ħabl/

حَبْل • (ḥabl) m (plural حِبَال (ḥibāl) or أَحْبُل (ʔaḥbul) or حُبُول (ḥubūl) or أَحْبَال (ʔaḥbāl))

1. (countable) a rope, a cable; a hawser; a cord; a string; a thread

   Synonyms: سَبَب (sabab, “a rope”), وَتَر (watar, “a cord; a string; a band”), خَيْط (ḵayṭ, “a thread”), عَصَب (ʕaṣab, “a band; a sinew”), رِبَاط (ribāṭ, “tie, bond”), مَرَسَة (marasa), قَلْس (qals), أَشْل (ʔašl), طُنُب (ṭunub), مَرَار (marār), إِصَار (ʔiṣār), مَأْصِر (maʔṣir), سِلْسِلَة (silsila), مِقَاط (miqāṭ)

   1. (countable) something resembling, likened to, or related to a rope (such as a ray, a beam, a jet, a vein, and so on)
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 50:16:

        وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَنَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفْسُهُۥۖ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِ

        wa-laqad xalaqnā l-ʾinsana wa-naʿlamu mā tuwaswisu bihī nafsuhū wa-naḥnu ʾaqrabu ʾilayhi min ḥabli l-warīdi
        We have created man and know what his spirit suggests to him, and We are closer to him than the rope of his [jugular] vein.

• حَبْلُ الوَرِيدِ (ḥabl al-warīd)

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• IPA^(key): /ħa.bi.la/

حَبِلَ • (ḥabila) I, non-past يَحْبَلُ‎ (yaḥbalu)

1. (intransitive) to become pregnant; to conceive

   Synonym: حَمَلَ (ḥamala)

• IPA^(key): /ħab.ba.la/

حَبَّلَ • (ḥabbala) II, non-past يُحَبِّلُ‎ (yuḥabbilu)

1. (transitive) to make pregnant, to impregnate

   Synonym: اِسْتَوْلَدَ (istawlada, “to father a child with”)

• IPA^(key): /ħa.bal/

حَبَل • (ḥabal) m

1. verbal noun of حَبِلَ (ḥabila) (form I)
2. conception
3. pregnancy

From Arabic حَبْل (ḥabl).

حبل • (habl)

1. (obsolete, rare) rope

   Synonyms: طَناب (tanâb), ریسمان (rismân)

• حَبل‌ُالمَتین (habl-ol-matin)