ਅਦਬ

Borrowed from Arabic أَدَب (ʔadab).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /ə.d̪əb/
• Hyphenation: ਅ‧ਦਬ
• Rhymes: -əb

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ਅਦਬ • (adab) m (Shahmukhi spelling ادب)

1. politeness
2. respect
3. reverence
4. courtesy
5. urbanity
6. discipline
7. literature
8. civility

• (respect): ਆਦਰ (ādar), ਸਤਕਾਰ (satkār), ਸਨਮਾਨ (sanmān)
• (literature): ਸਾਹਿਤ (sāhit)

• ਅਦਬ ਆਦਾਬ (adab ādāb, “civility”)
• ਅਦਬੀ (adabī, “literary”, adjective)

• “ਅਦਬ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Singh, Bhai Maya (1895) “ਅਦਬ”, in The Panjabi Dictionary, Lahore: Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons.