अब

Inherited from Sanskrit अ (a) + एवम् एव (evam eva). Compare जब (jab), तब (tab), and कब (kab).

अब • (ab) (Urdu spelling اب‎)

1. now

   अब क्या करोगे? ― ab kyā karoge? ― What will you do now?

2. after all

   जायज़ है कि घोड़े नहीं उड़ सकते, अब वो कोई पंछी हैं क्या?

   jāyaz hai ki ghoṛe nahī̃ uṛ sakte, ab vo koī pañchī ha͠i kyā?

   It's obvious that horses can't fly, after all they are not birds, are they?

• अभी (abhī)
• अब से (ab se)
• अब तक (ab tak)

• जब (jab)
• कब (kab)
• तब (tab)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “अब”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “अब”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “अब”, in Collins Gem Hindi-English Dictionary, Collins, 2011, →ISBN
• Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “अब”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House

Inherited from Sanskrit अ (a) + एवम् एव (evam eva). Compare Hindi अब (ab).

• IPA^(key): [ʌbʌ]
• Phonetic Devanagari: अबअ

अब • (aba)

1. now