عيب

See also: غيب, عیب, and غ ي ب

Arabic

Etymology

From عَابَ (ʕāba, to be faulty, to be deficient).

Noun

عَيْب • (ʕayb) m (dual عَيْبَانِ (ʕaybāni), plural عُيُوب (ʕuyūb))

  1. verbal noun of عَابَ (ʕāba) (form I)
  2. fault, defect, deficiency, failing
  3. flaw, shortcoming, blemish
  4. vice, weakness
  5. shame, disgrace

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: għajb
  • Azerbaijani: eyb, eyib
  • Bashkir: ғәйеп (ğəyep)
  • Chagatai: عیب
    • Uyghur: ئەيب (eyb)
    • Uzbek: ayb
  • Central Kurdish: عەیب ('eyb)
  • Kazakh: айып (aiyp)
  • Kumyk: айып (ayıp)
  • Kyrgyz: айып (ayıp)
  • Malay: aib
    • Indonesian: aib
  • Middle Armenian: այիպ (ayip)
    • Armenian: այիբ (ayib)
  • Ottoman Turkish: عیب (ʿayb)
  • Pashto: عيب
  • Persian: عیب ('eyb)
  • Punjabi: عَیْب (ʻaib)
  • Sindhi: عَيْبُ
  • Somali: ceeb
  • Swahili: aibu
  • Tausug: ayb
  • Turkmen: aýyp
  • Urdu: عَیْب ('ayb)
  • Yoruba: àléébù

Verb

عَيَّبَ • (ʕayyaba) II, non-past يُعَيِّبُ‎ (yuʕayyibu)

  1. to find fault, to take exception, to object, to disapprove
  2. to blame, to censure, to denounce, to decry
  3. to reproach, to chide, to scold, to admonish, to reprimand

Conjugation

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَيْب (ʕayb).

Noun

عَيْبُ • (aibu) ?

  1. fault

Further reading

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “عَيْبُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • عيب”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic عَيْب (ʕayb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕeːb/, [ʕeːb]
  • (file)

Noun

عيب • (ʕēb) m (plural عيوب (ʕuyūb))

  1. flaw, fault, defect, shortcoming
  2. shame, disgrace

Interjection

عيب • (ʕēb)

  1. shame, shame on you
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