صباح

Cognate with Ge'ez ጽበሕ (ṣəbäḥ).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.baːħ/

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صَبَاح • (ṣabāḥ) m

1. (Modern Standard Arabic) the time from sunrise to noon, morning

   Synonym: (literary) ضُحَا (ḍuḥā, “forenoon”)

   Antonym: مَسَاء (masāʔ, “evening”)

   صَبَاحُ الْخَيْر ― ṣabāḥu l-ḵayr ― Good morning

2. (archaic) the time from morning twilight to sunrise, dayspring

   Synonyms: فَجْر (fajr, “dawn”), (literary) غَدَاة (ḡadāh, “daybreak”), (literary) بُكْرَة (bukra, “cockcrow”)

   Antonym: غَسَق (ḡasaq, “dusk”)

   Hypernym: نَهَار (nahār, “daytime”)

• صَبَاحَ مَسَاءَ (ṣabāḥa masāʔa)
• صَبَاحِيّ (ṣabāḥiyy)
• صَبَاحِيَّة (ṣabāḥiyya)

• صُبْح (ṣubḥ)
• إِصْبَاح (ʔiṣbāḥ)

• Maltese: sbieħ
• → Bengali: সাবাহ (sābāh)
• → Azerbaijani: sabah
• → Judeo-Tat: сэбэхь (səbəħ)
• → Northern Kurdish: sibê
• → Karaim: сабахъ
• → Middle Armenian: սաբահ (sabah), սապահ (sapah), սաբան (saban), սէպահ (sēpah), սաբախ (sabax)
• → Ottoman Turkish: صباح (sabah)
  • Turkish: sabah
  • → Crimean Tatar: saba
  • → Macedonian: сабајле (sabajle)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: sàbāh / са̀ба̄х
• → Tarifit: ṣṣbeḥ

صُبَاح or صُبَّاح • (ṣubāḥ or ṣubbāḥ) (feminine صَبْحَى (ṣabḥā), common plural صِبَاح (ṣibāḥ) or صُبَاحَى (ṣubāḥā))

1. pretty, comely, handsome, graceful

• صَبْحَان (ṣabḥān)
• صَبِيح (ṣabīḥ)
• صَبُوح (ṣabūḥ)

• صَبَاحَة (ṣabāḥa, “beauty, grace”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

صِبَاح • (ṣibāḥ) m pl

1. masculine plural of صَبِيح (ṣabīḥ)

Borrowed from Arabic صَبَاح (ṣabāḥ, “morning”).

صباح • (sabah) (definite accusative صباحی (sabahı), plural صباحلر (sabahlar))

1. morning, forenoon, the part of the day between sunrise and noon

   Synonym: بام (bam)

• Turkish: sabah
• → Crimean Tatar: saba
• → Macedonian: сабајле (sabajle)
• → Serbo-Croatian: sàbāh / са̀ба̄х

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صباح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 196
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sabah”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3993
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sabâh”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1084
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صباح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 754
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mane”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1000
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صباح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2928
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sabah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صباح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1165

Borrowed from Arabic صَبَاح (ṣabāḥ).

صباح • (sabâh) (chiefly Dari or Eastern Iran)

1. (typically colloquial) tomorrow

صباح • (sabâh)

1. morning

   Synonyms: صبح (sobh), پگاه (pagâh), بامداد (bâmdâd)

2. (chiefly Dari or Eastern Iran, typically colloquial) tomorrow

• Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “صباح”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 240
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “صباح”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “صباح”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• “صباح”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013