صبي

From the root ص ب و‎ (ṣ-b-w).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.bijj/
• Rhymes: -ijj

صَبِيّ • (ṣabiyy) m (dual صَبِيَّانِ‎ (ṣabiyyāni), plural صِبْيَة‎ (ṣibya) or صِبْيَان‎ (ṣibyān) or أَصْبٍ‎ (ʔaṣbin) or أَصْبِيَة‎ (ʔaṣbiya), feminine صَبِيَّة‎ (ṣabiyya))

1. a young male human, a boy-child

   Synonyms: غُلَام‎ (ḡulām), فَتًى‎ (fatan), شَابّ‎ (šābb)

   Coordinate terms: صَبِيَّة‎ (ṣabiyya), فَتَاة‎ (fatāh), شَابَّة‎ (šābba), (archaic) جَارِيَة‎ (jāriya)

   1. a boy-servant; a slave-boy
2. (obsolete) an unweaned male human child, a suckling

   Synonym: رَضِيع‎ (raḍīʕ, “nursling”)

3. (rare) a protrusion; a projection
4. (rare) the pupil of an eye

   Synonyms: بُؤْبُؤ‎ (buʔbuʔ), حَدَقَة‎ (ḥadaqa)

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• Maltese: sabi
• → Bashkir: сабый (sabıy, “small child”)
• → Kazakh: сәби (säbi)
• → Uzbek: sabiy

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “صبي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “صبي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /sˤub.biː/

صُبِّي • (ṣubbī) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular active imperative of صَبَّ‎ (ṣabba)

From the diminutive of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /sˤbaj/

صْبَيْ • (ṣbayy) m (dual صْبَيّين‎ (ṣbayyēn), plural صْبَيّان‎ (ṣbayyān))

1. boy

   Synonym: ولد‎ (walad)

   Coordinate terms: بنية‎ (bnayya), بنت‎ (bint)

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˤɪ.bi/

صِبي • (ṣibi) m (dual صِبيّين‎ (ṣibīyēn), plural صبيان‎ (ṣibyān))

1. male servant of any age

   Synonym: دريول‎ (drēwil)

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.bi/, [ˈsˤɑ.bi]

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صبي • (ṣabi) m (plural صبيان‎ (ṣibyān), feminine صبيّة‎ (ṣabiyye))

1. boy, young man

• ولد‎ (walad, “boy; child”)