جبه
Arabic
Etymology
From the root ج ب ه (j-b-h). Compare جَبْهَة (jabha, “forehead”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒa.ba.ha/
Verb
جَبَهَ • (jabaha) I, non-past يَجْبَهُ (yajbahu)
Conjugation
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Ottoman Turkish
Derived terms
- جبهجی (cübbeci, “robe-dealer; page”)
- جبهلی / جبهلو (cübbeli, “robed, gowned”)
Descendants
Etymology 2

Of Mongolic origin, compare Kalmyk зевсег (zevseg), зебсег (zebseg, “weapons”), зер-зевсег (zer-zevseg), зер-зебсег (zer-zebseg, “weapons, equipment”), Mongolian зэр зэвсег (zer zevseg, “weapons”), зэвсэг (zevseg, “weapon”), ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *jebseg (“weapon”) related to Proto-Mongolic *jebe (“arrowhead”), Mongolian зэв (zev, “arrowhead”).
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: джебе (džebe)
- → Serbo-Croatian: (rare)
- Cyrillic script: џе̏бе, џе̏ба
- Latin script: džȅbe, džȅba
References
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission) (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 301
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “جبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1580
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “790. GÚBE”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 132
Persian
Etymology 2
Of Mongolic origin, compare Kalmyk зевсег (zevseg), зебсег (zebseg, “weapons”), зер-зевсег (zer-zevseg), зер-зевсег (zer-zevseg, “weapons, equipment”), Mongolian зэр зэвсег (zer zevseg, “weapons”), зэвсэг (zevseg, “weapon”), ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *jebseg (“weapon”) related to Proto-Mongolic *jebe (“arrowhead”), Mongolian зэв (zev, “arrowhead”). The Persian is also found in the figure جیر وجبه (jêr v-jebe), the former part of which is an archaism in Mongolic only found in the mentioned coordinated pair.
Alternative forms
- جیبه (jebe), جبا (jebâ), جیبا (jebâ)
Related terms
- جبهچی (jebe-či, “armourer”)
- جبخانه (jebxâne, “arsenal”)
References
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission) (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 301