حبة

Arabic

FWOTD – 4 January 2018

Etymology

From the root ح ب ب‎ (ḥ-b-b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħab.ba/

Noun

حَبَّة • (ḥabba) f (singulative, collective حَبّ‎ m (ḥabb), plural حُبُوب‎ (ḥubūb))

  1. grain
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:261:
      ‏مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُم فِي سَبِيلِ اللّٰهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ أَنْبَتَت سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِي كُلِّ سُنْبُلَةٍ مِئَةُ حَبَّةٍ‎‎
      maṯalu allaḏīna yunfiqūna ʔamwālahum fī sabīli llāhi kamaṯali ḥabbatin ʔanbatat sabʕa sanābila fī kulli sunbulatin miʔatu ḥabbatin
      Those who spend their wealth in the way of God are like a grain which grows seven ears, (and) in each ear a hundred grains
  2. pill
    • 2017 December 22, “ضبط نحو ألف حبة مخدرة بطريقها للدخول إلى واسط”, in The Baghdad Post‎:
      ‏اعلن مدير اعلام شرطة قيادة محافظة واسط، حسن عواد، اليوم الجمعة، ضبط شرطة المحافظة نحو الف حبة مخدرة في سيطرة اللج كانت مخفية بداخل محرك سيارة.‎‎
      The Press Director of the Police Headquarters of the Province of Wāsiṭ, Hasan ʿuwād, has announced that on Friday the police of the province has seized around a thousand narcotic pills in the control of a gap hidden in the interior of a car engine.
  3. (in the plural) cereals

Declension

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic حَبَّة‎ (ḥabba).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħab.be/, [ˈħab.be]
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Noun

حبّة • (ḥabbe) f (singulative, collective حبّ‎ m (ḥabb), paucal حبّات‎ (ḥabbāt), plural حبوب‎ (ḥbūb))

  1. seed, grain, berry
    ‏حبّة قمح‎‎ ― ḥabbet ʔamḥ ― a grain of wheat
  2. measure word for small round things, fruits and vegetables
    ‏حبّتين بطاطا‎‎ ― ḥabtēn baṭāṭa ― two potatoes
  3. pill, tablet
    ‏خد تلات حبّات باليوم.‎‎
    ḵod talat ḥabbāt bil-yōm
    Take three pills a day.
  4. pimple, pustule
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