ذهب

See also: دہت and ذ ه ب

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ذ ه ب (ḏ-h-b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ða.ha.ba/

Verb

ذَهَبَ (ḏahaba) I, non-past يَذْهَبُ‎ (yaḏhabu)

  1. to go, to travel
    إِلَى أَيْنَ أَنْتَ ذَاهِبٌ؟
    ʔilā ʔayna ʔanta ḏāhibun?
    Where are you going?
  2. to go away, to leave, to depart
  3. to disappear, to vanish
  4. to decline, to dwindle
  5. to perish, to die, to be destroyed
  6. to abduct, to steal, to sweep away, to annihilate [+ بِ (object)]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:أفنى
  7. to lead someone, to conduct someone, to take someone along
  8. to think, to believe, to hold the view, to be of the opinion [+ إَلَى (object) = that]
    • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān], volume 1, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1866, line 9, page 37:
      فأمّا الْبَرِيد ففيه خلاف وذهب قوم إلى أنه بالبادية اثنا عشر ميلا وبالشام وخراسان ستة أميال
      About the postal route there is disagreement. Folks believed that in the desert it is twelve miles and in Syria and Khorasan six miles.
  9. to escape, to slip, to lose sight of, to be forgotten [+ عَن (object) = by]
  10. to ignore, to skip, to omit [+ عَن (object) = what]
  11. to prepare to, to be about to
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Denominal verb from ذَهَب (ḏahab, gold).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ðah.ha.ba/

Verb

ذَهَّبَ (ḏahhaba) II, non-past يُذَهِّبُ‎ (yuḏahhibu)

  1. to gild
Conjugation

Etymology 3

ذَهَبَ

A Central Semitic innovation. Cognate with Hebrew זָהָב (zāhāḇ) and Classical Syriac ܕܗܒܐ (dahbā’).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ða.hab/
  • (file)

Noun

ذَهَب (ḏahab) m

  1. (uncountable) gold
    Synonyms: عَسْجَد (ʕasjad), تِبْر (tibr), إِبْرِيز (ʔibrīz)
  2. (uncountable) gold coin
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Maltese: deheb
  • Gulf Arabic: ذَهَب (ḏəhəb)
  • Hijazi Arabic: ذَهَب (dahab)
  • Afar: daháb
  • Azerbaijani: zəhəb
  • Persian: ذهب (zahab)
  • Somali: dahab
  • Swahili: dhahabu

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

Noun

ذهب (ḏahab) m

  1. (uncountable) gold

Hijazi Arabic

ذَهَبَ

Etymology

From Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dahab/ (traditional pronunciation)
    IPA(key): /ðahab/ (spelling pronunciation)

Noun

ذَهَب (dahab) m pl

  1. gold

Usage notes

Both traditional and spelling pronunciations are used by most speakers interchangeably.

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /zaˈhab/

Noun

Dari ذهب
Iranian Persian
Tajik заҳаб (zahab)

ذهب (zahab)

  1. Synonym of طلا (gold)
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