سبب

From the root س ب ب‎ (s-b-b).

• IPA^(key): /sab.ba.ba/

• Noun

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سَبَّبَ • (sabbaba) II, non-past يُسَبِّبُ‎‎ (yusabbibu)

1. to cause, to effect, to trigger, to generate

• IPA^(key): /sa.bab/

سَبَب • (sabab) m (plural أَسْبَاب‎ (ʔasbāb))

1. (chiefly Classical Arabic) cable, rope

   Synonyms: حَبْل‎ (ḥabl), مَرَسَة‎ (marasa), رِبَاط‎ (ribāṭ), قَلْس‎ (qals), أَشْل‎ (ʔašl), طُنُب‎ (ṭunub)

2. cause, grounds, aetiological reason

   ‏بِسَبَب ذٰلِكَ‎ ― bi-sabab ḏālika ― because of that

   • a. 1233 CE, Ibn al-Athīr, الكامل في التاريخ‎, volume 4, first edition, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, published 1997, page 81:

     ‏وَكَانَ سَبَبُ قَتْلِهِ أَنَّ أَبَاهُ اسْتَعْمَلَهُ عَلَى الْأَنْدَلُسِ، كَمَا ذَكَرْنَا، عِنْدَ عَوْدِهِ إِلَى الشَّامِ، فَضَبَطَهَا وَسَدَّدَ أُمُورَهَا، وَحَمَى ثُغُورَهَا، وَافْتَتَحَ فِي إِمَارَتِهِ مَدَائِنَ بَقِيَتْ بَعْدَ أَبِيهِ،‎‎

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3. alibi

• → Armenian: սաբաբ (sabab)
• → Avar: сабаб (sabab)
• → Azerbaijani: səbəb
• → Bashkir: сәбәп (säbäp)
• → Crimean Tatar: sebep
• → Fula: sababu
• → Georgian: საბაბი (sababi)
• → Hausa: sabàbī
• → Hindi: सबब (sabab)
• → Indonesian: sebab
• → Kazakh: себеп (sebep)
• → Kyrgyz: себеп (sebep)
• → Ladino: sebeb, sebep
• → Malay: sebab
• → Pashto: سبب‎ (sabáb)
• → Persian: سبب‎ (sabab)
• → Somali: sabab, sababta
• → Swahili: sababu
• → Tajik: сабаб (sabab)
• → Tatar: сәбәп (säbäp)
• → Turkish: sebep
• → Turkmen: sebäp
• → Urdu: سبب‎ (sabab)
• → Uyghur: سەۋەب‎ (seweb)
• → Uzbek: sabab
• → Yoruba: sábàbí

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “سب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

سبب (plural سبب-سبب or سبب۲‎, informal 1st possessive سببکو‎, 2nd possessive سببمو‎, 3rd possessive سببڽ‎)

1. Jawi spelling of sebab

سبب

1. Jawi spelling of sebab

From Arabic سَبَب‎ (sabab).

سبب • (sebeb)

1. cause, reason
2. motive

• Turkish: sebep
• → Armenian: սեպեպ (sepep), սա̈բա̈բ (säbäb)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سبب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 662b
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “sebep”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic سَبَب‎ (sabab).

سبب • (sabab) (plural اسباب‎ (asbâb))

1. cause, reason

   Synonyms: باعث‎ (bâ'es), دلیل‎ (dalil)

   ‏سبب این حادثه‎ ― sabab-e in hâdese ― the cause of this incident

   ‏سبب کاهش قیمت‌ها‎ ― sabab-e kâheš-e qeymat-hâ ― the cause of the decline in prices

   • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 4”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]:

     ‏ندانم از چه سبب رنگ آشنایی نیست
     سهی قدان سیه چشم ماه سیما را‎

     na-dânam az če sabab rang-e âšenâyi nist
     sahi qaddân-e siyah čašm-e mâh simâ râ

     I do not know for what reason there is no hue of recognition from these ones standing tall, with black eyes and moon-like faces.

From Arabic سَبَّبَ‎ (sabbaba).

• IPA^(key): /sab.bab/, [ˈsab.bab]

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سبّب • (sabbab) (form II, present بسبّب‎ (bisabbeb))

1. to cause, to produce, to bring about

   ‏التضخم المالي بسبّب لمجتمعنا الاستقرار.‎‎

   il-taḍaḵḵom al-māli bisabbeb la-mujtamʕana al-istaqrār

   Inflation brings about instability in our society.

   ‏الطقس سبّب هالتّأخير.‎‎

   il-taʕs sabbab ha-t-tʕaḵīr

   The weather caused this delay.