talab

Hindi तालाब (tālāb), from Persian تالاب‎ (tâlâb).

talab (plural talabs)

1. (Middle East, India, Pakistan) A pond for harvesting rainwater.
   • 2009 September 13, Rick Westhead, “India: Will the tap run dry?”, in Toronto Star‎:

     Harish, whose foundation provides villages with some of the building costs for tankas and talabs, grins as she relates the story.

• Balta, Labat, tabla

• Hyphenation: ta‧lab

talab

1. a pen shell; any member of the family Pinnidae

• balat, latab, tabla

From Arabic طَلَبَ‎ (ṭalaba, “to demand, ask, beg”). Though the Arabic verb can mean “to ask God in prayer”, the general sense “to pray” is not present. In Maltese, it is without doubt a semantic influence from Sicilian prigari (both “to ask” and “to pray”), from Latin precari.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.lap/

talab (imperfect jitlob, past participle mitlub, verbal noun talb or tlib)

1. to ask for; to request; to beg
2. to pray; to be in prayer

• Hyphenation: ta‧lab
• IPA^(key): /taˈlab/, [tɐˈlab]

taláb

1. potently effective; proved effective (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)

   Synonyms: mabisa, nagkabisa, may-bisa

2. effectively cutting through (of cutting tools)

taláb

1. potent effectiveness; effective action (of medicine, advice, lesson, etc.)

   Synonyms: bisa, epekto

2. cutting action (of cutting tools)

   Synonym: kagat

3. (obsolete) act of blunting a tool
4. (obsolete) root used for dyeing

• balat, tabal, tabla

From Arabic طَلَب‎ (ṭalab), compare Turkish talep (“request”).

talab (plural talablar)

1. request

   Synonym: istak

• talabgor