شعب

شَعَبَ • (šaʕaba) I (non-past يَشْعَبُ (yašʕabu), verbal noun شَعْب (šaʕb))

1. to gather, unite
2. to mend
3. to disperse
4. to split, cut
5. to spoil, injure
6. to get separated
7. to leave one's people
8. to appear

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

شَعِبَ • (šaʕiba) I (non-past يَشْعَبُ (yašʕabu), verbal noun شَعَب (šaʕab))

1. to be broad in the shoulders
2. to have a large space between the horns

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen

شَعَّبَ • (šaʕʕaba) II (non-past يُشَعِّبُ (yušaʕʕibu), verbal noun تَشْعِيب (tašʕīb))

1. to split, divide, ramify
2. to beat the tail to the right and left

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen

•  IPA^(key): /ʃaʕb/

شَعْب • (šaʕb) m (plural شُعُوب (šuʕūb))

1. verbal noun of شَعَبَ (šaʕaba, “to gather, unite”) (form I)
2. tribe, race
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:13:

     يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِنْ ذَكَرٍ وَأُنْثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا

     yā ʔayyuhā n-nāsu ʔinnā ḵalaqnākum min ḏakarin waʔunṯā wajaʕalnākum šuʕūban waqabāʔila litaʕārafū

     O humanity! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may ˹get to˺ know one another.

3. a people, nation
4. distance
5. split, cleft
6. gathering, uniting
7. mending
8. dispersing
9. splitting, cutting
10. spoiling, injury
11. getting separated
12. leaving one's people
13. appearance (act of appearing)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen

•  IPA^(key): /ʃiʕb/

شِعْب • (šiʕb) m (plural شِعَاب (šiʕāb))

1. mountain path, path
2. cleft, narrow path, valley, watercourse

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “شعب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen

•  IPA^(key): /ʃu.ʕab/

شُعَب • (šuʕab) pl

1. plural of شعبَة

شَعَب • (šaʕab) m

1. verbal noun of شَعِبَ (šaʕiba) (form I)

From Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /ʃoʔæb/

شعب • (šo'ab)

1. plural of شعبه

From Arabic شَعْب (šaʕb).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʕb/, [ʃaʕb]

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شعب • (šaʕb) m (plural شعوب (šʕūb))

1. people (of a country)