س ب ي

س ب ي • (s-b-y)

1. related to captivity

• Form I: سَبَى‎ (sabā, “to captivate”)
  • Verbal noun: سَبْي‎ (saby, “capture; captivity; captives”)
  • Active participle: سَابٍ‎ (sābin)
  • Passive participle: مَسْبِيّ‎ (masbiyy)
• Form VI: تَسَابَى‎ (tasābā, “to make each other captive”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَابٍ‎ (tasābin)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَابٍ‎ (mutasābin)
• Form VIII: اِسْتَبَى‎ (istabā, “to captivate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِبَاء‎ (istibāʾ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَبٍ‎ (mustabin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَبًى‎ (mustaban)

• سَابِيَاء‎ (sābiyāʾ, “amniotic sac”); pl. سَوَابِيّ‎ (sawābiyy)
• إِسْبَاءَة‎ (ʾisbāʾa) and أُسْبِيَّة‎ (ʾusbiyya, “streak of blood”); pl. أَسَابِيّ‎ (ʾasābiyy)
• سَبِيّ‎ (sabiyy, “captive”)
•  أَسْبَى‎ (ʾasbā, “making more captives”)
• سَبًا‎ (saban) and سَبَاء‎ (sabāʾ) and سَبِيّ‎ (sabiyy, “piece of wood brought by a body of water from one region to another”)
• سَبِيَّة‎ (sabiyya, “pearl brought by a diver”)

• Freytag, Georg (1833), “س ب ي”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 282
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “س ب ي”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1048–1049
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “س ب ي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1303
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “س ب ي”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 551