سبع

سَبْع • (sabʕ) m (feminine سَبْعَة (sabʕa))

1. masculine of سَبْعَة (sabʕa, “seven”)

From the root س ب ع (s-b-ʕ); compare سَبْعَة (sabʕa, “seven”).

سُبُع or سُبْع • (subuʕ or subʕ) m (plural أَسْبَاع (ʔasbāʕ))

1. one seventh

• نِصْف (niṣf, “a half”), ثُلُث (ṯuluṯ, “a third”), رُبُع (rubuʕ, “a fourth, a quarter”), خُمُس (ḵumus, “a fifth”), سُدُس (sudus, “a sixth”), ثُمُن (ṯumun, “an eighth”), تُسُع (tusuʕ, “a ninth”), عُشُر (ʕušur, “a tenth”)

سَبُع or سَبْع • (sabuʕ or sabʕ) m (plural سِبَاع (sibāʕ) or أَسْبُع (ʔasbuʕ) or سُبُوع (subūʕ) or سُبُوعَة (subūʕa))

1. a beast of prey; a voracious animal

   Hyponym: أَسَد (ʔasad)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:3:

     حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ وَالْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَالْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَالْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَالنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَا أَكَلَ السَّبُعُ إِلَّا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْ وَمَا ذُبِحَ عَلَى النُّصُبِ وَأَن تَسْتَقْسِمُوا بِالْأَزْلَامِ

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• → Azerbaijani: səbʼ

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سبع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic سَبْع (sabʕ, “predatory animal, beast of prey”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsæbʕ]

سبع • (sabʕ) m (plural سباع (sibāʕ) or سبوع (subūʕ))

1. lion

   Synonym: أسد

   سبع ولا ضبع ― sabʕ walla ḍabʕ? ― Success or failure? (literally, “a lion or a hyena?”)

سبع • (sabʕ)

1. (slang or humorous) lionesque

   راجل سبع ― rāgel sabʕ ― a real man

• Spiro, Socrates (1895). An Arabic-English vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt, containing the vernacular idioms and expressions, slang phrases, etc., etc., used by the native Egyptians Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office.
• Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986). A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
• Lane, Edward William (1863). An Arabic - English Lexicon derived from the best and the most copious eastern sources London: Williams and Northgate.

From Arabic سَبْع (sabʕ).

• IPA^(key): /sbaʕ/

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سبع • (sbaʕ) m (plural سبوعة (sbūʕa))

1. lion

From Arabic سُبُع (subuʕ).

• IPA^(key): /subʕ/, [ˈsʊ.b(ʊ)ʕ]

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سبع • (subʕ) m (plural سباع (sbāʕ) or أسباع (ʾasbāʕ))

1. seventh (fraction)

From Arabic سَبْع (sabʕ), feminine of سَبْعَة (sabʕa).

• IPA^(key): /sabʕ/, [sabʕ]

سبع • (sabʕ)

1. construct state of سبعة (sabʕa)

From Arabic سَبْع (sabʕ, “predatory animal, beast of prey”).

سبع • (sabʕ) m

1. lion

   Synonym: أسد