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د ع ب ع

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root appears to be onomatopoeic, representing the sound or utterance of an infant requesting something. It is primarily used to describe the imitation of a baby's sounds.

Derived headwords

دَعْبَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to imitate a baby's soundclassical

    To utter a sound imitative of a baby's request or utterance, specifically combining sounds like 'da' and 'ba'.

دَعْبَعnoun
  1. 1.
    baby's utteranceclassical

    The sound or utterance of a suckling infant when it is asking for something, represented by the combined sounds 'da' and 'ba'.

زَرْبَعname
  1. 1.
    son's nameclassical

    The name of a son, mentioned in a poetic context.

Parallel reading

يعني حكاية لفظ الطفل الرضيع إذا طلب شيئا.
It means imitating the utterance of a suckling infant when it asks for something.
كأن الحاكي حكى لفظه مرة بدع ومرة ببع، فجمعهما في حكايته، فقال: دعبع.
It is as if the narrator imitated its utterance once with 'da' and once with 'ba', and combined them in his imitation, saying: 'da'ba'.
وليل كأثناء الرويزي جبته ... إذا سقطت أرواقه دون زربع
And a night like the early part of the Ruwayzi, I approached it... when its leaves fell without Zurban.
لأدنو من نفس هناك حبيبة ... إلي، إذا ما قال لي أين دعبع
So that I may draw near to a beloved soul there... to me, when he says to me, 'Where is Da'ba?'
وكسر العين الأخيرة لأنها حكاية الصوت.
And the last 'ayn is kasra because it is an imitation of the sound.