بواب

Arabic

Etymology

From بَاب (bāb, door).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baw.waːb/

Noun

بَوَّاب (bawwāb) m (plural بَوَّابُونَ (bawwābūna), feminine بَوَّابَة (bawwāba))

  1. doorman, doorkeeper, gatekeeper
    Synonym: (obsolete) فَيْتَق (faytaq)

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: bəvvab
  • English: bowab
  • Greek: μπουάπης (bouápis), μπουάπα (bouápa)
  • Ottoman Turkish: بواب (bevvab)
    • Turkish: bevvab
  • Persian: بواب (bavvâb)
  • Swahili: bawabu
  • Urdu: بواب (bavvāb)

Further reading

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), بواب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), بواب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَوَّاب (bawwāb).

Noun

بواب (bevvab) (plural بوابون)

  1. a gate-keeper, a porter; an usher or chamberlain; especially, an usher or chamberlain in a royal palace
    Synonym: قپوجی
  2. the opening of the stomach into the bowel, the pyloris

Descendants

  • Turkish: bevvab

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَوَّاب (bawwāb).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /bavˈvɔb/

Noun

Dari بواب
Iranian Persian
Tajik баввоб (bavvob)

بواب (bavvâb)

  1. doorkeeper

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَوَّاب (bawwāb).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bəʋ.ʋɑːb/

Noun

بَوّاب (bauoāb) m (Hindi spelling बव्वाब)

  1. doorman, doorkeeper

Further reading

  • بواب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • بواب”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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