جبة

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ج ب ب (j-b-b) meaning “to cut”, “to carve a well or cistern”; from the encircling and enclosing of a well or cistern comes the secondary sense “to surround”, “to envelop”, “to en-wrap”, ultimately, from Proto-Semitic *gbb (“to bend, curve, cut”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒub.ba/

Noun

جُبَّة • (jubba) f (plural جُبَب (jubab) or جِبَاب (jibāb) or جَبَائِب (jabāʔib))

  1. jubbah (a type of clothing worn in some Arabic lands traditionally by men)
  2. a wrapper, cloak, coat, outer garment
  3. (archaic) coat of mail, defensive clothing

Declension

Descendants

  • Andalusian Arabic: جبة (gubbah)
    • → Old Spanish: aljuba
      • Spanish: aljuba
        • ⇒ Spanish: juba (variant)
          • ⇒ Spanish: jubón (augmentative)
      • → Old Italian: giuppa
        • Italian: giubba (see there for further descendants)
        • → Catalan: gipó
        • → Middle French: jupe
          • French: jupe (see there for further descendants)
          • → Middle English: jupe (see there for further descendants)
          • → Russian: ю́бка (júbka) (with diminutive suffix)
          • ⇒ Middle French: jupon
            • French: jupon (see there for further descendants)
            • → Middle English: jupon (see there for further descendants)
        • → Middle High German: joppe, schoppe
        • ⇒ Old Italian: giuppone
          • → Portuguese: gibão
          • Balto-Slavic languages
          • Turkic languages
            • → Chagatai: چپان (çapan), چاپان (çapan)
            • → Kazakh: шапан (şapan)
            • → Kyrgyz: жупан (jupan)
            • → Tatar: жупан (jupan), → Tatar: чапан (çapan)
            • → Ottoman Turkish: چپان (çapan), چاپان (çapan)
            • → Uzbek: chopon
          • → Venetian: zipon, zipón
            • → Byzantine Greek: ζιπόνιν (zipónin), ζιπούνιν (zipoúnin)
    • → Persian: جبه (jobbe)
    • → Tibetan: ཕྱུ་པ (phyu pa) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: جبه (cübbe) (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: jubbah, djibba, djibbah, jibba, jibbah, jubbeh
  • → Malay: jubah

References

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