دبابة

See also: ذبابة

Arabic

Root
د ب ب (d-b-b)

Etymology

Tool noun from the root د ب ب (d-b-b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dab.baː.ba/

Noun

دَبَّابَة (dabbāba) f (plural دَبَّابَات (dabbābāt))

  1. tank, armoured vehicle
  2. (historical) A kind of medieval siege engine designed to shelter men who are digging a hole in enemy fortifications
  3. anything that creeps; an animal that creeps or crawls
    • 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Book of Genesis, 1:24:
      وَقَالَ اللَّٰهُ: «لِتُخْرِجِ الأَرْضُ ذَوَاتِ أَنْفُسٍ حَيَّةٍ كَجِنْسِهَا: بَهَائِمَ، وَدَبَّابَاتٍ، وَوُحُوشَ أَرْضٍ كَأَجْنَاسِهَا». وَكَانَ كَذَٰلِكَ.
      waqāla llāhu: “lituḵriji l-ʾarḍu ḏawāti ʾanfusin ḥayyatin kajinsihā: bahāʾima, wadabbābātin, wawuḥūša ʾarḍin kaʾajnāsihā”. wakāna kaḏālika.
      And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.

Declension

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