دب

From the root د ب ب‎ (d-b-b).

• IPA^(key): /dab.ba/

دَبَّ • (dabba) I, non-past يَدِبُّ‎‎ (yadibbu)

1. to creep, to crawl
2. to proceed, to advance, to move slowly
3. to go on all fours
4. to enter
5. to steal, to creep
6. to spread, to fill, to pervade, to invade
7. to gain ground

• دَابَّة‎ (dābba, “beast of burden”)
• دَبَّاب‎ (dabbāb, “crawling”)
• دَبَّابَة‎ (dabbāba, “tank”)
• دَبِيب‎ (dabīb, “crawling, influx, reptile”)
• دُوَيْبَّة‎ (duwaybba, “tiny animal, insect”)
• مَدَبّ‎ (madabb)
• مُدَبَّب‎ (mudabbab, “pointed”)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “دب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Proto-Semitic *dubb- (“bear”), from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *dab- (“big animal”). Compare Aramaic דבא‎ (debā, debo), Hebrew דוב‎ (dov).

• IPA^(key): /dubb/

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دُبّ • (dubb) m (plural أَدْبَاب‎ (ʾadbāb) or دِبَبَة‎ (dibaba), feminine دُبَّة‎ (dubba))

1. (zoology) bear

   (astronomy) الدُّبّ الْأَصْغَر‎ (ad-dubb al-ʾaṣḡar, “Ursa Minor”)

   (astronomy) الدُّبّ الْأَكْبَر‎ (ad-dubb al-ʾakbar, “Ursa Major”)

• دُبِّيّ‎ (dubbiyy, “ursine, bearly”)

• Maltese: debb

• IPA^(key): /dabb/

دَبّ • (dabb) m

1. verbal noun of دَبَّ (dabba) (form I)
2. walking along slowly
3. creeping, crawling

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “دب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): /dibb/

دِبّ • (dibb) m

1. slow walk
2. creeping, crawling

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “دب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “دب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN