ع ب ب

The meaning of gulping or chugging may be just onomatopoeic, as an alternative form غَبَّ‎ (ḡabba) suggests, however the root is aptly described as the Aramaic reflex of the Arabic root ض ب ب‎ (ḍ-b-b) related to sticking, density, tumorosity, see Classical Syriac ܥܒܐ‎ (ʾāḇā, “thicket; spiny-tailed lizard”).

ع ب ب • (ʕ-b-b)

1. related to having it abundant and pouring forth

• Form I: عَبَّ‎ (ʕabba, “to gulp down, to chug”)
  • Verbal noun: عَبّ‎ (ʕabb)
  • Active participle: عَابّ‎ (ʕābb)
  • Passive participle: مَعْبُوب‎ (maʕbūb)
• Form V: تَعَبَّبَ‎ (taʕabbaba, “to drink عَبِيبَة‎ (ʕabība)”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَبُّب‎ (taʕabbub)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَبِّب‎ (mutaʕabbib)

• ع ب ع ب‎ (ʕ-b-ʕ-b)
• عُبَب‎ (ʕubab, “husk tomato”)
• عُبَاب‎ (ʕubāb, “waves or billows of a torrent of water”)
• يَعْبُوب‎ (yaʕbūb, “torrent”)
• عَبِيبَة‎ (ʕabība, “the exudation of certain plants”)
• عُبّ‎ (ʕubb, “breast pocket”)
• أَعَبّ‎ (ʔaʕabb, “of a fat nose”)

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ع ب ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 95
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ع ب ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1931–1933
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ع ب ب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 684