أحب

See also: أجب‎, أخت‎, and اچت‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ح ب ب‎ (ḥ-b-b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.ħab.ba/
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Verb

أَحَبَّ • (ʔaḥabba) IV, non-past يُحِبُّ‎‎ (yuḥibbu)

  1. to love, to like
    ‏أُحِبُّكَ‎ ― ʔuḥibbuka ― I love you (to a male)
    ‏أُحِبُّكِ‎ ― ʔuḥibbuki ― I love you (to a female)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:216:
      ‏وَعَسَى أَن تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ وَعَسَى أَن تُحِبُّوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَكُمْ‎
      waʕasā ʔan takrahū šayʔan wahuwa ḵayrun lakum waʕasā ʔan tuḥibbū šayʔan wahuwa šarrun lakum
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
Conjugation
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Elative of حَبِيب‎ (ḥabīb, “dear”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.ħabb/

Adjective

أَحَبّ • (ʔaḥabb)

  1. elative degree of حَبِيب‎ (ḥabīb):
    1. dearer; dearest, favourite
      • 1355 CE, Ibn Battuta, Abd Al-Hādī At-Tāzī, editor, رحلة ابن بطوطة المسماة تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار, volume 4, Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, published 1997, →ISBN, page 74:
        ‏وكانت الرابعة وهي ربيبة الوزير عبد الله تسكن في دارها. وهي أحبهن إليّ.‎‎
        My fourth wife, who was the daughter-in-law of the Wazir ‘Abdallah, used to live in her own house, and she was my favourite amongst them.
        Translated by H. A. R. Gibb
    2. more agreeable; most agreeable
Declension
References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “أحب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “حب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Verb

أَحِبُّ • (ʔaḥibbu) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of حَبَّ‎ (ḥabba)

Verb

أَحِبَّ • (ʔaḥibba) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of حَبَّ‎ (ḥabba)
  2. first-person singular non-past active jussive of حَبَّ‎ (ḥabba)

Verb

أَحِبِّ • (ʔaḥibbi) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of حَبَّ‎ (ḥabba)

Verb

أُحَبُّ • (ʔuḥabbu) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past passive indicative of حَبَّ‎ (ḥabba)

Verb

أُحَبَّ • (ʔuḥabba) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of حَبَّ‎ (ḥabba)
  2. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of حَبَّ‎ (ḥabba)

Verb

أُحَبِّ • (ʔuḥabbi) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of حَبَّ‎ (ḥabba)
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