Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بَابَ

Root: بوب

Form: 1

Full Definition

بَابَI , Present.T يَبُوبُ, quasi-Verbal.Noun, if there be such a verb, بِوَابَةٌ, with the و not changed into ى because it is not an Verbal.Noun properly speaking, but a subst., He was, or became, a door-keeper, or gate-keeper, to him; namely, a Sultán [or other person].


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