كب

كَبَّ • (kabba) I (non-past يَكُبُّ (yakubbu), verbal noun كَبّ (kabb))

1. to prostrate, to cause to go lie downwards, to spill
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 27:90:

     وَمَن جَاءَ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ فَكُبَّتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ فِي النَّارِ هَلْ تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

     waman jāʔa bi-s-sayyiʔati fakubbat wujūhuhum fī n-nāri hal tujzawna ʔillā mā kuntum taʕmalūna

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to cover with a lid
   • a. 957, آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, كتاب مسالك الممالك وهو معول على كتاب صور الأقاليم [kitāb masālik al-mamālik wa-huwa muʿawwal ʿalā kitāb ṣuwar al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 1)‎^[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1870, page 293 line 7:

كَبّ • (kabb) m

1. verbal noun of كَبَّ (kabba) (form I)

From Arabic كَبَّ (kabba).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /kəbb(ˤ)/

كب • (kabb) (imperfect يكب (ykubb))

1. to spill (a liquid)

From Arabic كَبَّ (kabba).

• IPA^(key): /kabb/, [kab]

كب • (kabb) I (non-past يِكُب (yikubb))

1. to spill
2. to toss, to throw away

From Arabic كَبَّ (kabba).

• IPA^(key): /kab/

كب • (kabb) I (non-past يكب (ykubb))

1. to pour out

   Synonym: صب (ṣabb)

From Arabic كَبَّ (kabba).

• IPA^(key): /kabb/, [kab]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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كبّ • (kabb) I (present بكبّ (bikibb) or بكبّ (bikobb))

1. (transitive) to spill, to pour out

   Synonym: صبّ (ṣabb)

   كبّ قهوة على الشرشف.

   kabb ʔahwe ʕala aš-šaršaf

   He spilled coffee on the tablecloth!

2. to toss, to throw away

   هادا خربان. كبّه!

   hāda ḵarbān. kibbo!

   That's gone bad. Throw it out!

• The non-past forms of this verb are typically pronounced with the vowel “i” by Palestinians and “u” by Jordanians.^[1]