حبل

From Proto-Semitic *ḥabl-, leveled to the root ح ب ل‎ (ḥ-b-l).

Cognate with Hebrew חבל‎ (khével).

• IPA^(key): /ħabl/

حَبْل • (ḥabl) m (plural حِبَال‎ (ḥibāl) or أَحْبُل‎ (ʔaḥbul) or حُبُول‎ (ḥubūl) or أَحْبَال‎ (ʔaḥbāl))

1. (countable) a rope, a cable; a hawser; a cord; a string; a thread

   Synonyms: (obsolete) سَبَب‎ (sabab, “a rope”), وَتَر‎ (watar, “a cord; a string; a band”), خَيْط‎ (ḵayṭ, “a thread”), عَصَب‎ (ʕaṣab, “a band; a sinew”)

   1. (countable) something resembling, likened to, or related to a rope (such as a ray, a beam, a jet, a vein, and so on)
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 50:16:

        وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَنَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفْسُهُۥۖ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِ

        wa-laqad xalaqnā l-ʾinsana wa-naʿlamu mā tuwaswisu bihī nafsuhū wa-naḥnu ʾaqrabu ʾilayhi min ḥabli l-warīdi

        We have created man and know what his spirit suggests to him, and We are closer to him than the rope of his [jugular] vein.

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From the root ح ب ل‎ (ḥ-b-l).

• IPA^(key): /ħa.bi.la/

حَبِلَ • (ḥabila) I, non-past يَحْبَلُ‎‎ (yaḥbalu)

1. (intransitive) to become pregnant; to conceive

   Synonym: حَمَلَ‎ (ḥamala)

• IPA^(key): /ħab.ba.la/

حَبَّلَ • (ḥabbala) II, non-past يُحَبِّلُ‎‎ (yuḥabbilu)

1. (transitive) to make pregnant, to impregnate

   Synonym: اِسْتَوْلَدَ‎ (istawlada, “to father a child with”)

• IPA^(key): /ħa.bal/

حَبَل • (ḥabal) m

1. verbal noun of حَبِلَ (ḥabila) (form I)
2. conception
3. pregnancy

From Arabic حَبْل‎ (ḥabl).

حبل • (habl)

1. (obsolete, rare) rope

   Synonyms: طَناب‎ (tanâb), ریسمان‎ (rismân)

• حَبل‌اُلمَتین‎ (habl-ol-matin)