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مَحْبُوب
beloved, well-liked person /mɑħˈbuːb/
nounB1#2456 most common
Also: darling, sweetheart, popular (well-liked by many)
Example sentences
أَنْتَ مَحْبُوبٌ جِدًّا.
You are very much loved.
هِيَ فَتَاةٌ مَحْبُوبَةٌ فِي الْمَدْرَسَةِ.
She is a well-liked girl at school.
أَصْبَحَ هٰذَا الْمُغَنِّي مَحْبُوبًا لَدَى الشَّبَابِ.
This singer has become beloved among young people.
الْمُعَلِّمُ الْمَحْبُوبُ يَتْرُكُ أَثَرًا كَبِيرًا فِي حَيَاةِ طُلَّابِهِ.
The beloved teacher leaves a great mark on his students' lives.
كَانَ الْمَلِكُ مَحْبُوبًا مِنْ شَعْبِهِ رَغْمَ الظُّرُوفِ الِاقْتِصَادِيَّةِ الصَّعْبَةِ.
The king was beloved by his people despite the hard economic conditions.
لَمْ يَكُنِ الزَّعِيمُ مَحْبُوبًا شَعْبِيًّا بِقَدْرِ مَا كَانَ مَحْبُوبًا فِي الدَّوَائِرِ السِّيَاسِيَّةِ الْمُغْلَقَةِ.
The leader was not so much loved by the public as he was loved within closed political circles.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَحْبُوبٌ | مَحْبُوبُونَ |
| Genitive | مَحْبُوبٍ | مَحْبُوبِينَ |
| Accusative | مَحْبُوباً | مَحْبُوبِينَ |
| Vocative | يَا مَحْبُوبُ | يَا مَحْبُوبُونَ |
Word family
Etymology
Mahbub comes from the Arabic root h-b-b, which carries the sense of loving or being fond of. It is the passive participle of the verb habba, built on the mafʿul pattern that Arabic uses to mark someone or something on the receiving end of an action. So mahbub literally names the one who is loved. Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestry.
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