# لقب
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ل ق ب (l q b)
* 1 term

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.qab/

#### Noun

لَقَب • (laqab) m (plural أَلْقَاب (ʔalqāb))
* nickname
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:11:[…] وَلَا تَلْمِزُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا بِٱلْأَلْقَابِ […][…] wa-lā talmizū ʔanfusakum wa-lā tanābazū bi-l-ʔalqābi […](please add an English translation of this quotation)
* title
* surname

##### Descendants

* Maltese: laqam
* → Ottoman Turkish: لقب (lakab), լագապ (lakab), լաղապ (lağab) — Armeno-Turkish
** Turkish: lakap
** → Albanian: llagap
** → Middle Armenian: լաղապ (laġap)
*** Armenian: լաղապ (laġap)
* → Persian: لقب (laqab)
* → Swahili: lakabu
* → Uyghur: لەقەم (leqem)
* → Uzbek: laqab

##### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “لقب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لقب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

### Etymology 2

Denominal verb derived from the noun لَقَب (laqab).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laq.qab/

#### Verb

لَقَّبَ • (laqqaba) II (non-past يُلَقِّبُ (yulaqqibu), verbal noun تَلْقِيب (talqīb))
* to nickname, to title, to surname

##### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “لقب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لقب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* լագապ (lakab), լաղապ (lağab) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَقَب (laqab, “surname, nickname”).

### Noun

لقب • (lakab) (definite accusative لقبی (lakabı), plural القاب (elkab))
* surname, family name, last name, a name designating a person as a member of a family
* nickname, moniker, sobriquet, an invented name for a person used instead of the actual name

#### Derived terms

* لقب قومق (lakab komak, “to set a nickname to a person”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: lakap
* → Albanian: llagap
* → Middle Armenian: լաղապ (laġap)
** Armenian: լաղապ (laġap)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lakap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2931
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “lâkab”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 646
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لقب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1080
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cognomen”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 198
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لقب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4189
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lakap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لقب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1637

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَقَب (laqab).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [la.ˈqaβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [lä.qǽb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [lä.qǽb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [lä.qǽb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [lä.qǽb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [læ.ʁǽb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [lä.qǽb]

### Noun

لقب • (laqab)
* title
* nickname

#### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لقب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* ل ق ب
* 1 term

### Etymology 1

From Arabic لَقَّبَ (laqqaba).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Urban) /laʔ.ʔab/, [ˈlaʔ.ʔab]
* IPA: (Bedouin) /laɡ.ɡab/, [ˈlaɡ.ɡab]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

لقّب • (laʔʔab) II (present بلقّب (bilaʔʔeb))
* to nickname
    Synonym: سمّى (samma)

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of لقّب (laʔʔab) :
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| past | m | لقّبت (laʔʔabt) | لقّبت (laʔʔabt) | لقّب (laʔʔab) | لقّبنا (laʔʔabna) | لقّبتو (laʔʔabtu) | لقّبو (laʔʔabu) |
| past | f | لقّبت (laʔʔabt) | لقّبتي (laʔʔabti) | لقّبت (laʔʔabat) | لقّبنا (laʔʔabna) | لقّبتو (laʔʔabtu) | لقّبو (laʔʔabu) |
| present | m | بلقّب (balaʔʔeb) | بتلقّب (bitlaʔʔeb) | بلقّب (bilaʔʔeb) | منلقّب (minlaʔʔeb) | بتلقّبو (bitlaʔʔbu) | بلقّبو (bilaʔʔbu) |
| present | f | بلقّب (balaʔʔeb) | بتلقّبي (bitlaʔʔbi) | بتلقّب (bitlaʔʔeb) | منلقّب (minlaʔʔeb) | بتلقّبو (bitlaʔʔbu) | بلقّبو (bilaʔʔbu) |
| subjunctive | m | القّب (alaʔʔeb) | تلقّب (tlaʔʔeb) | يلقّب (ylaʔʔeb) | نلقّب (nlaʔʔeb) | تلقّبو (tlaʔʔbu) | يلقّبو (ylaʔʔbu) |
| subjunctive | f | القّب (alaʔʔeb) | تلقّبي (tlaʔʔbi) | تلقّب (tlaʔʔeb) | نلقّب (nlaʔʔeb) | تلقّبو (tlaʔʔbu) | يلقّبو (ylaʔʔbu) |
| imperative | m | | لقّب (laʔʔeb) | | | لقّبو (laʔʔbu) | |
| imperative | f | | لقّبي (laʔʔbi) | | | لقّبو (laʔʔbu) | |

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Arabic لَقَب (laqab).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.qab/, [ˈlɑ.qɑb]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

#### Noun

لقب • (laqab) m (plural ألقاب (ʔalqāb))
* title
* nickname

## Tunisian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لَقَب (laqab) ("nickname, title, surname").

### Noun

لقب (laqab) m
* surname, family name, last name

#### Usage notes

In Tunisia, it was common for individuals to use their father's first name as their surname, rather than a traditional family name.

### References

* Derja.ninja – Tunisian Arabic to English dictionary.

## Urdu
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /lə.qəb/
* Rhymes: -əb

### Noun

لَقَب • (laqab) m (Hindi spelling लक़ब)
* title, appellation, epithet
* surname
* nickname