صعب

See also: صغت

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ص ع ب (ṣ-ʕ-b).

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /sˤa.ʕu.ba/

Verb

صَعُبَ (ṣaʕuba) I, non-past يَصْعُبُ‎ (yaṣʕubu)

  1. to be hard, difficult
Conjugation
Descendants
  • Maltese: sogħob

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕb/
  • (file)

Adjective

صَعْب (ṣaʕb) (feminine صَعْبَة (ṣaʕba), common plural صِعَاب (ṣiʕāb), elative أَصْعَب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. laborious, trying, awkward, difficult, complex
Declension
Antonyms
Descendants

Pronunciation 3

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕ.ʕa.ba/

Verb

صَعَّبَ (ṣaʕʕaba) II, non-past يُصَعِّبُ‎ (yuṣaʕʕibu)

  1. to impede
    Synonym: عَقَّدَ (ʕaqqada, to tangle)
Conjugation

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979), صعب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /saʔb/

Adjective

Dari صعب
Iranian Persian
Tajik саъб (saʾb)

صعب (sa'b) (comparative صعب‌تَر (sa'b-tar), superlative صعب‌تَرین (sa'b-tarin))

  1. (archaic) difficult

Synonyms

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ص ع ب

Etymology

From Arabic هَيِّن (hayyin).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤaʕb/, [ˈsˤɑ.ʕ(ɪ)b]
  • (file)

Adjective

صعب (ṣaʕb) (feminine صعبة (ṣaʕbe), masculine plural صعاب (ṣʕāb), elative أصعب (ʔaṣʕab))

  1. hard, difficult
    Antonyms: سهل (sihl), هين (hayyen)

See also

  • عويص (ʕawīṣ, complicated), معقد (mʕaʔʔad, complicated)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَعْب (ṣaʕb).

Pronunciation

Adjective

صَعْب (sa'b) (Hindi spelling साब)

  1. difficult, hard, arduous, troublesome, hard to be borne or endured, disagreeable, distressing
  2. refractory, untractable, disobedient, stubborn, perverse

Further reading

  • صعب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), صعب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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