دولاب

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (dulâb, dolâb).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /duː.laːb/, /daw.laːb/

Noun

دُولَاب or دَوْلَاب • (dūlāb or dawlāb) m (plural دَوَالِيب‎ (dawālīb))

water-wheel
- a. 896, Ibn ar-Rũmīy, يا سائلي عن مجمع اللذات …‎:
  ‏ومتِّع العين بها مَليَّا – وأطبق الخبزَ وكلْ هنيّا
  طوراً تُرى كفِلكةِ الدولاب – وتارةً كعسجدِ الذُّؤابِ‎
  And bespin the eye with it for long – layer bread, beget bare throng!
  Lots, looks like a hench waterwheel – strings of gold, clumps for real!
- a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 208 line 8:
  ‏والقادوس كوز الدولاب‎
  And bucket is the dipper of a water-wheel.
wheel
tire
gears, machinery
closet, cupboard (in Egypt and Levant)

Declension

Declension of noun دُولَاب (dūlāb)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُولَاب dūlāb	الدُّولَاب‎ ad-dūlāb	دُولَاب dūlāb
Nominative	دُولَابٌ dūlābun	الدُّولَابُ‎ ad-dūlābu	دُولَابُ dūlābu
Accusative	دُولَابًا‎ dūlāban	الدُّولَابَ‎ ad-dūlāba	دُولَابَ dūlāba
Genitive	دُولَابٍ dūlābin	الدُّولَابِ‎ ad-dūlābi	دُولَابِ dūlābi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُولَابَيْن‎ dūlābayn	الدُّولَابَيْن‎ ad-dūlābayn	دُولَابَيْ‎ dūlābay
Nominative	دُولَابَانِ‎ dūlābāni	الدُّولَابَانِ‎ ad-dūlābāni	دُولَابَا‎ dūlābā
Accusative	دُولَابَيْنِ‎ dūlābayni	الدُّولَابَيْنِ‎ ad-dūlābayni	دُولَابَيْ‎ dūlābay
Genitive	دُولَابَيْنِ‎ dūlābayni	الدُّولَابَيْنِ‎ ad-dūlābayni	دُولَابَيْ‎ dūlābay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
Plural	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَوَالِيب‎ dawālīb	الدَّوَالِيب‎ ad-dawālīb	دَوَالِيب‎ dawālīb
Nominative	دَوَالِيبُ‎ dawālību	الدَّوَالِيبُ‎ ad-dawālību	دَوَالِيبُ‎ dawālību
Accusative	دَوَالِيبَ‎ dawālība	الدَّوَالِيبَ‎ ad-dawālība	دَوَالِيبَ‎ dawālība
Genitive	دَوَالِيبَ‎ dawālība	الدَّوَالِيبِ‎ ad-dawālībi	دَوَالِيبِ‎ dawālībi

References

Haywood, J.A.; Nahmad, H.M. (1965), “دولاب”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
Wehr, Hans (1979), “دولاب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
Lane, Edward William (1863), “دولاب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		долаб
Abjad		دولاب

Noun

دولاب (dolab) (definite accusative دولابی‎ (dolabı), plural دولابلار‎ (dolablar))

Arabic spelling of dolab (“closet”)

Declension

Declension of دولاب

	singular	plural
nominative	دولاب	دولابلار‎
definite accusative	دولابێ‎	دولابلارێ‎
dative	دولابا‎	دولابلارا‎
locative	دولابدا‎	دولابلاردا‎
ablative	دولابدان‎	دولابلاردان‎
definite genitive	دولابێن‎	دولابلارێن‎

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (dolâb, “closet”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /doːˈlaːb/

Noun

دولاب • (dōlāb) m (plural دَوَاليب‎ (dawālīb))

closet

Persian

Etymology 1

Perhaps from ‎ (do, “two”) +‎ ‎ (lâb, “split, cleft; half”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [du.lɑːβ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪u.lɔːb̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪o.lɒːb̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪u.lɔb]

Readings
Classical reading^?	dulāḇ
Dari reading^?	dulāb
Iranian reading^?	dolâb
Tajik reading^?	dulob

Noun

دولاب • (dolâb)

(now dialectal) cupboard; closet
trick, fraud, machination

Descendants

→ Armenian: դոլաբ (dolab)
→ Azerbaijani: dolab
→ Central Kurdish: [script needed] (dołab)
→ Northern Kurdish: dolab, dolap, dolav
→ Ottoman Turkish: طولاب‎ (dolab)
- Turkish: dolap
- → Albanian: dollap
- → Bulgarian: дола́п (doláp)
- → Romanian: dulap
- → Greek: ντουλάπι (ntoulápi)
- → Ladino: dolap
- → Serbo-Croatian: dòlāp

Etymology 2

From ‎ (dul) +‎ ‎ (âb), or from earlier ‎ (dalv-âb), from ‎ (dalv) + ‎ (âb), or this is an analogic formation. The vocalism dowlâb is reborrowed from Arabic دَوْلَاب‎ (dawlāb).

Noun

دولاب • (dulâb, dowlâb) (plural دولاب‌ها‎ (dulâb, dowlâb-hâ))

(archaic) water wheel; draw-well
1. (archaic) Persian wheel
- 1045-1052, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama
  ‏بر آب دولاب های بسیار ساخته اند.‎‎
  bar âb dulâb-hâye basyâr sâxta-and.
  [O]ver [the Orontes] river they have built many water wheels.

Descendants

→ Arabic: دَوْلَاب‎ (dawlāb)
→ Middle Armenian: դօլապ (dōlap), տոլապ (tolap)
→ Old Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi)
- Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi)
→ Ottoman Turkish: طولاب‎ (dolab)

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