جيبة

Egyptian Arabic

Alternative forms

  • جيب (žīb), چيب (žīb), جيبه (žība), چيبة (žība), چيبه (žība)

Etymology

From French jupe (skirt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒiː.ba/

Noun

جيبة • (žība) f (plural جيبات (žibāt))

  1. skirt
    Synonyms: جيب (žīb), جونلة (gunilla), (obsolete) تنورة (tannūra)
    هو إيه الموضة اللي طالعة الايام دي أي حتة قماشة يحطولها أستك ويبقى اسمها جيبة حتى لو قماش ملاية سرير؟
    huwwa ʾēh il-mōḍa ʾilli ṭalʿa l-ʾayyām di ʾayy ḥittit ʾumāš yiḥuṭṭulha ʾastik wi-yibʾa ʾismaha žība ḥatta law ʾumāš milāyit sirīr?
    What's with the fashion that's coming out these days, they put a rubber band on any piece of fabric and it is now called a skirt even if it's a bedsheet fabric?

Derived terms

  • منى جيب (míni žīb)
  • ميكرو جيب (míkru žīb)

References

  • Spiro, Socrates (1895). An Arabic-English vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt, containing the vernacular idioms and expressions, slang phrases, etc., etc., used by the native Egyptians Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office.
  • Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986). A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic Beirut: Librairie du Liban.

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ج ي ب
2 terms

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒeː.be/, [ˈʒeː.be]
  • (file)

Noun

جيبة • (jēbe) f (plural جياب (jyāb) or جيب (jiyab))

  1. pocket
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