عجب

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.d͡ʒi.ba/

عَجِبَ • (ʕajiba) I (non-past يَعْجَبُ (yaʕjabu), verbal noun عَجَب (ʕajab))

1. to wonder, to marvel, to be astonished, to be amazed

• IPA^(key): /ʕad͡ʒ.d͡ʒa.ba/

عَجَّبَ • (ʕajjaba) II (non-past يُعَجِّبُ (yuʕajjibu), verbal noun تَعْجِيب (taʕjīb))

1. to strike with wonder, to strike with astonishment, to surprise

• IPA^(key): /ʕud͡ʒb/

عُجْب • (ʕujb) m

1. pride, vanity, conceit

   Synonyms: كِبْر (kibr), زَهْو (zahw), غُرُور (ḡurūr); see also Thesaurus:كبرياء

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.d͡ʒab/

عَجَب • (ʕajab) m (plural أَعْجَاب (ʔaʕjāb))

1. verbal noun of عَجِبَ (ʕajiba) (form I)
2. wonder, marvel, astonishment, amazement

عَجَب • (ʕajab)

1. wonderful, marvelous
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 72:1:

     قُلْ أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ أَنَّهُ ٱسْتَمَعَ نَفَرٌ مِّنَ الْجِنِّ فَقَالُوا إِنَّا سَمِعْنَا قُرْآنًا عَجَبًا

     qul ʔūḥiya ʔilayya ʔannahu stamaʕa nafarun mina l-jinni faqālū ʔinnā samiʕnā qurʔānan ʕajaban

     Say, "It has been revealed to me that a team of the jinn listened [to the Qurʾān] and they said, 'We have indeed heard a wonderful Qurʾān.'"

• → Azerbaijani: əcəb
• → Bashkir: ғәжәп (ğəjəp, adjective/adverb)
• → Kazakh: ғажап (ğajap)
• →⇒ Middle Armenian: աճպարար (ačparar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: عجب (acep)
  • Turkish: acaba, acep (adverb)
  • → Middle Armenian: աճապ (ačap)
    • Armenian: աջաբ (aǰab), աճապ (ačap), աճափ (ačapʻ), ա̈ջա̈փ (äǰäpʻ)
• → Persian: عجب ('ajab)
  • → Urdu: عجب (ajab)
    • → Fiji Hindi: ajab
  • ⇒ Bengali: আজব (ajob)
• → Swahili: ajabu
• → Uyghur: ئەجەب (ejeb)
• → Uzbek: ajab

From Arabic أَعْجَبَ (ʔaʕjaba).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.d͡ʒab/, [ʕa.d͡ʒab], [ʕa.ʒab]

عَجَب • (ʕajab) I (non-past يِعْجِب (yiʕjib))

1. to like
2. to be astonished, to be amazed

Borrowed from Arabic عَجَب (ʕajab).

عَجَب • ('ajab)

1. wonder, marvel, astonishment, amazement
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 1394:

     در چنین مستی مراعات ادب، خود نباشد ور بود باشد عجب

     dar čonin masti mora'at-e adab, xod na-bâšad v-ar bovad bâšad 'ajab.

     In such [mystical] intoxication [as his], the observance of due respect [to the letter of the Qur'an] will not be there at all; or if it be, 'tis a wonder.

• → Urdu: عجب
  • → Fiji Hindi: ajab

عَجَب • ('ajab)

1. what a wonder, how strange, amazing
   • 1177, Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, منطق الطیر [The Conference of the Birds], volumes lines 733—737:

     ابتدای کار سیمرغ ای عجب، جلوه‌گر بگذشت بر چین نیم شب، در میان چین فتاد از وی پری، لاجرم پر شور شد هر کشوری.

     ebtedâ-ye kâr-e simorġ ey 'ajab, jelow-gar be-gozašt bar čin nim-šab, dar miyân-e čin fatâd az vey par-i, lâ-jaram por-šur šod har kešvar-i.

     The beginning of [this] affair of the Simorgh, oh how wondrous! It passed in China in full splendor one midnight, and a feather fell from it in the middle of China. Consequently, each country became ardent [to see the feather].

Borrowed from Arabic عُجْب (ʕujb).

عُجب • ('ojb)

1. pride, vanity, conceit

• أعجب (ʔaʕjab) (MSA-influenced form)

From Arabic أَعْجَبَ (ʔaʕjaba).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.ʒab/, [ˈʕa.ʒab], [ˈʕa.d͡ʒab]

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عجب • (ʕajab) I (present بعجب (biʕjeb), active participle عاجب (ʕājeb))

1. to amaze, to impress
2. (by extension, transitive) to be pleasing

   Synonym: جنّن (jannan)

   عجبتني كتير اغنيتها.

   ʕajbatni ktīr oḡnyetha.

   I really liked her song.

   (literally, “Her song was very pleasing to me.”)

   مش عاجبهم الشغل معها.

   miš ʕājebhom iš-šoḡol maʕha.

   They don't like working with her.

   (literally, “Work with her is not pleasing to them.”)

• Pragmatically, this verb means "to like", with the agent grammatically expressed as the object of pleasure; this construction is analogous to the Spanish verb "gustar".

From Arabic عَجَّبَ (ʕajjaba).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaʒ.ʒab/, [ˈʕaʒ.ʒab], [ˈʕad.d͡ʒab]

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عجّب • (ʕajjab) II (present بعجّب (biʕajjeb))

1. to amaze, to surprise, to astonish

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَجَب (ajab), from Arabic عَجَب (ʕajab).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ə.d͡ʒəb/
• Rhymes: -əb

عَجَب • ('ajab) (Hindi spelling अजब)

1. wonderful, astonishing, amazing, miraculous
2. rare, strange
3. droll

• → Fiji Hindi: ajab

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• Platts, John T. (1884) “عجب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 759