سحاب

From the root س ح ب (s-ḥ-b)

• IPA^(key): /sa.ħaːb/

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سَحَاب • (saḥāb) m sg or f sg or f pl (collective, singulative سَحَابَة (saḥāba), plural سُحُب (suḥub))

1. clouds
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 13:12:

     هُوَ الَّذِي يُرِيكُمُ الْبَرْقَ خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا وَيُنْشِئُ السَّحَابَ الثِّقَالَ

     huwa llaḏī yurīkumu l-barqa ḵawfan waṭamaʕan wayunšiʔu as-saḥāba aṯ-ṯiqāla

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   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 27:88:

     وَتَرَى الْجِبَالَ تَحْسَبُهَا جَامِدَةً وَهِيَ تَمُرُّ مَرَّ السَّحَابِ صُنْعَ اللَّهِ الَّذِي أَتْقَنَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ إِنَّهُ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَفْعَلُونَ

     watarā l-jibāla taḥsabuhā jāmidatan wahiya tamurru marra l-ssaḥābi ṣunʕa l-lahi llaḏī ʔatqana kulla šayʔin ʔinnahu ḵabīrun bimā tafʕalūna

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سَحَّاب • (saḥḥāb) m (plural سَحَّابَات (saḥḥābāt))

1. zip fastener

Root
س ح ب
2 terms

From Arabic سَحَّاب (saḥḥāb).

• IPA^(key): /saħ.ħaːb/

سَحَّاب • (saḥḥāb) m (plural سَحَّابات (saḥḥābāt))

1. zipper

   Synonym: سُسْتَة (susta)

From Arabic سَحَاب (saḥāb).

• IPA^(key): /sa.ħaːb/

سحاب • (saḥāb) m (collective, singulative سحابة f (saḥāba), paucal سحابات (saḥābāt), plural سحب (suḥub))

1. clouds

Borrowed from Arabic سَحَاب (saḥāb).

Readings
Classical reading?	sahāḇ
Dari reading?	sahāb
Iranian reading?	sahâb
Tajik reading?	sahob

سحاب • (sahâb) (collective)

1. clouds

   Synonym: ابر (abr)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 83:

     اشکی از گردون به صحن خاک میریزد سحاب
     رنگی از گلها بروی باغ می‌آرد جهان

     aškē az gardūn ba sahn-i xāk mē-rēzad sahāb
     rangē az gulhā ba-rō-yi bāğ mē-ārad jahān

     The clouds are spilling a tear from the heavens to the dusty court,
     The world is bringing a hue from the roses to the garden's face.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سحاب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Root
س ح ب
3 terms

• IPA^(key): /saħ.ħaːb/, [saħˈħæːb]

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Inherited from Arabic سَحَّاب (saḥḥāb).

سحّاب • (saḥḥāb) m

1. zip, zipper, zip fastener

   Synonym: جرار (jarrār)

Picture dictionary
الأردن عمّان إربد الزرقا رصيفة وادي السير سحاب الرمثا صويلح مفرق مادبا السلط جرش عجلون
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Inherited from Arabic سَحَاب (saḥāb, “clouds”).

سحاب • (saḥāb) f

1. Sahab (a city in Jordan)