# ذبح
## Arabic

* Root
* ذ ب ح (ḏ b ḥ)
* 5 terms

### Etymology

Compare Hebrew זבח (“to slaughter”) and Ugaritic 𐎄𐎁𐎈 (dbḥ).

### Verb

ذَبَحَ • (ḏabaḥa) I (non-past يَذْبَحُ (yaḏbaḥu), verbal noun ذَبْح (ḏabḥ))
* to kill by slitting the throat
* to slaughter, to butcher
    Synonyms: جَزَرَ (jazara), نَحَرَ (naḥara)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:67:إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكُمْ أَن تَذْبَحُوا بَقَرَةًʔinna l-laha yaʔmurukum ʔan taḏbaḥū baqaratanAllah commands you to slaughter a cow
* to massacre
* to murder, to slay
* to sacrifice, to offer up, to immolate

#### Descendants

* Maltese: debaħ

### Verb

ذَبَّحَ • (ḏabbaḥa) II (non-past يُذَبِّحُ (yuḏabbiḥu), verbal noun تَذْبِيح (taḏbīḥ))
* to kill, to slaughter, to butcher, to massacre, to murder
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:49:وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَاكُم مِّنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ وَفِي ذَٰلِكُم بَلَاءٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌwaʔiḏ najjaynākum min ʔāli firʕawna yasūmūnakum sūʔa l-ʕaḏābi yuḏabbiḥūna ʔabnāʔakum wayastaḥyūna nisāʔakum wafī ḏālikum balāʔun min rabbikum ʕaẓīmun(Remember) how We delivered you from the people of Pharaoh, who afflicted you with dreadful torment, slaughtering your sons and keeping your women. That was a severe test from your Lord.
** 1949, Muṣṭafā as-Sibāʕiyy, “غزوة حنين”, in السيرة النبوية: دروس وعبر, 8th edition, Beirut/Damascus: Al-Maktab al-ʕAṣriyy, published 1985, page 143:فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ الصَّلِيبِيُّونَ بَيْتَ الْمَقْدِسِ ذَبَّحُوا كُلَّ مَنِ ٱلْتَجَأَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ ٱلْأَقْصَى تَذْبِيحًا عَامًّا، وَقَدْ بَلَغَ مَنْ ذَبَّحُوا فِيهِ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا مِنَ الْعُلَمَاءِ، وَٱلزُّهَّادِ، وَٱلنِّسَاءِ، وَٱلْأَطْفَالِ.falammā daḵala ṣ-ṣalībiyyūna bayta l-maqdisi ḏabbaḥū kulla mani ltajaʔa ʔilā l-masjidi l-ʔaqṣā taḏbīḥan ʕāmman, waqad balaḡa man ḏabbaḥū fīhi sabʕīna ʔalfan mina l-ʕulamāʔi, waz-zuhhādi, wan-nisāʔi, wal-ʔaṭfāli.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Conjugation
### Noun

ذَبْح • (ḏabḥ) m
* verbal noun of ذَبَحَ (ḏabaḥa) (form I)
* slaughter, slaughtering

#### Declension
### Noun

ذِبْح • (ḏibḥ) m
* sacrificial victim, blood sacrifice

#### Declension
## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ذ ب ح
* 1 term

### Etymology 1

From Arabic ذَبَحَ (ḏabaḥa).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /da.baħ/, /ða.baħ/

#### Verb

ذبح • (dabaḥ) I (non-past يِذْبَح (yidbaḥ))
* to kill by slitting the throat
* to slaughter, to butcher
* to murder, to slay

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of ذبح (dabaḥ) :
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| past | m | ذبحت (dabaḥt) | ذبحت (dabaḥt) | ذبح (dabaḥ) | ذبحنا (dabaḥna) | ذبحتوا (dabaḥtu) | ذبحوا (dabaḥu) |
| past | f | ذبحت (dabaḥt) | ذبحتي (dabaḥti) | ذبحت (dabaḥat) | ذبحنا (dabaḥna) | ذبحتوا (dabaḥtu) | ذبحوا (dabaḥu) |
| non-past | m | أذبح (ʔadbaḥ) | تذبح (tidbaḥ) | يذبح (yidbaḥ) | نذبح (nidbaḥ) | تذبحوا (tidbaḥu) | يذبحوا (yidbaḥu) |
| non-past | f | أذبح (ʔadbaḥ) | تذبحي (tidbaḥi) | تذبح (tidbaḥ) | نذبح (nidbaḥ) | تذبحوا (tidbaḥu) | يذبحوا (yidbaḥu) |
| imperative | m | | اذبح (adbaḥ) | | | اذبحوا (adbaḥu) | |
| imperative | f | | اذبحي (adbaḥi) | | | اذبحوا (adbaḥu) | |

### Etymology 2

From Arabic ذَبَّحَ (ḏabbaḥa).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dab.baħ/, /ðab.baħ/

#### Verb

ذبح • (dabbaḥ) II (non-past يِذَبِّح (yidabbiḥ))
* to kill, to massacre
    Synonym: قَتَّل (gattal)

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of ذبح (dabbaḥ) :
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| past | m | ذبحت (dabbaḥt) | ذبحت (dabbaḥt) | ذبح (dabbaḥ) | ذبحنا (dabbaḥna) | ذبحتوا (dabbaḥtu) | ذبحوا (dabbaḥu) |
| past | f | ذبحت (dabbaḥt) | ذبحتي (dabbaḥti) | ذبحت (dabbaḥat) | ذبحنا (dabbaḥna) | ذبحتوا (dabbaḥtu) | ذبحوا (dabbaḥu) |
| non-past | m | أذبح (ʔadabbiḥ) | تذبح (tidabbiḥ) | يذبح (yidabbiḥ) | نذبح (nidabbiḥ) | تذبحوا (tidabbiḥu) | يذبحوا (yidabbiḥu) |
| non-past | f | أذبح (ʔadabbiḥ) | تذبحي (tidabbiḥi) | تذبح (tidabbiḥ) | نذبح (nidabbiḥ) | تذبحوا (tidabbiḥu) | يذبحوا (yidabbiḥu) |
| imperative | m | | ذبح (dabbiḥ) | | | ذبحوا (dabbiḥu) | |
| imperative | f | | ذبحي (dabbiḥi) | | | ذبحوا (dabbiḥu) | |

### Etymology 3

From Arabic ذَبْح (ḏabḥ).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dabħ/, /ðabħ/

#### Noun

ذبح • (dabḥ) m
* slaughter, slaughtering

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذَبْح (ḏabḥ). Formally perhaps influenced by the related ذِبْح (ḏibḥ), though alteration of short vowels in Arabic loanwords is a common phenomenon.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ðiβh], [ziβh]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zɪbʰ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zɪbʰ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zɪb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zib̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zebʰ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zibʰ]

### Noun

ذبح • (zebh)
* slaughter, slaughtering
    Synonym: (more general) کشتن (koštan)

#### Derived terms

* ذبح کردن (zebh kardan)
* ذبح شدن (zebh šodan)

#### Related terms

* ذبیح (zabih)