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حَبِيب
beloved /ħaˈbiːb/
adjectiveA1#532 most common
Also: darling, sweetheart, dear
Example sentences
يا حَبِيبِي، تَعالَ هُنا.
My darling, come here.
هُوَ صَدِيقٌ حَبِيبٌ إِلى قَلْبِي.
He is a friend dear to my heart.
كَتَبَتْ رِسالَةً طَوِيلَةً إِلى حَبِيبِها.
She wrote a long letter to her beloved.
فَقَدْنا حَبِيباً عَزيزاً عَلَيْنا هٰذا العام.
We lost a beloved one dear to us this year.
ما زالَتْ ذِكْرى الحَبيبِ الرّاحِلِ تُؤرِّقُني كُلَّ لَيْلَة.
The memory of the departed beloved still keeps me awake every night.
في الشِّعْرِ العَرَبِيِّ القَديمِ، يَقِفُ الشّاعِرُ على أَطْلالِ دارِ الحَبيبِ باكِياً.
In classical Arabic poetry, the poet stands weeping at the ruins of the beloved's abode.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حَبِيبٌ (ḥabībun) | أَحِبّاءُ (aḥibbāʾu) |
| Genitive | حَبِيبٍ (ḥabībin) | أَحِبّاءَ (aḥibbāʾa) |
| Accusative | حَبِيباً (ḥabīban) | أَحِبّاءَ (aḥibbāʾa) |
| Vocative | يا حَبِيبُ (yā ḥabību) | يا أَحِبّاءُ (yā aḥibbāʾu) |
Word family
حُبّ (ḥubb)love
أَحَبَّ (aḥabba)to love
مَحْبُوب (maḥbūb)beloved, popular
حَبِيبَة (ḥabība)sweetheart, girlfriend
مَحَبَّة (maḥabba)affection, love
Etymology
حَبِيب comes from the Semitic root ḥ-b-b, which carries the sense of love and affection. It follows the faʿīl template, a pattern that often turns a verb's action into a lasting quality, here 'one who is loved.' The same root gives Arabic ḥubb, 'love,' and the verb aḥabba, 'to love.'
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