عاب

Possibly related to Egyptian ꜥb (“to make dirty, to pollute”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaː.ba/

عَابَ • (ʕāba) I (non-past يَعِيبُ (yaʕību), verbal noun عَيْب (ʕayb) or مَعْيبَة)

1. to be faulty, to be defective
2. to spoil, to mar
3. to blame, to decry
4. to shame, to humiliate, to disgrace
   • 2012, Julia Boutros, “مُقَاوِم (muqāwim)”, in أَحِبَّائِي (ʔaḥibbāʔī):

     عَابَ مَجْدَكَ بِالمَذَلَّةِ وَالهَزَائِمِ
     حِينَمَا هَبَّ الجَنُوبُ لِكَيْ يُقَاوِم

     ʕāba majdaka bi-l-maḏallati wa-l-hazāʔimi
     ḥīnamā habba l-janūbu likay yuqāwim

     You glory was shamed with humility and defeats
     When the South stood up to resist

5. to render defective
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:79:

     أَمَّا السَّفِينَةُ فَكَانَتْ لِمَسَاكِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ فِي الْبَحْرِ فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَعِيبَهَا وَكَانَ وَرَاءَهُم مَلِكٌ يَأْخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ غَصْبًا

     ʔammā s-safīnatu fakānat limasākīna yaʕmalūna fī l-baḥri faʔaradtu ʔan ʔaʕībahā wakāna warāʔahum malikun yaʔḵuḏu kulla safīnatin ḡaṣban

     “As for the ship, it belonged to some poor people, working at sea. So I intended to damage it, for there was a ˹tyrant˺ king ahead of them who seizes every ˹good˺ ship by force.

     Translated by Mustafa Khattab