# دولاب
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duː.laːb/, /daw.laːb/

### Etymology 1

From Persian دولاب (dolâb).

#### Noun

دُولَاب or دَوْلَاب • (dūlāb or dawlāb) m (plural دَوَالِيب (dawālīb))
* closet, cupboard
    Synonyms: خِزَانَة (ḵizāna), صِوَان (ṣiwān)

##### Descendants

* → Amharic: ዱላብ (dulab)

### Etymology 2

From Classical Persian دولاب (dōlāb).

#### Noun

دُولَاب or دَوْلَاب • (dūlāb or dawlāb) m (plural دَوَالِيب (dawālīb))
* water-wheel
    Synonyms: نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), سَانِيَة (sāniya), دَالِيَة (dāliya), سَاقِيَة (sāqiya)
** a. 896, Ibn ar-Rũmīy, يا سائلي عن مجمع اللذات …‎:ومتِّع العين بها مَليَّا – وأطبق الخبزَ وكلْ هنيّا طوراً تُرى كفِلكةِ الدولاب – وتارةً كعسجدِ الذُّؤابِAnd bespin the eye with it for long – layer bread, beget bare throng! Lots, looks like a hench waterwheel – strings of gold, clumps for real!
** a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, page 208 line 8:والقادوس كوز الدولابAnd bucket is the dipper of a water-wheel.
** a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد [ʾāṯār al-bilād wa-ʾaḵbār al-ʿibād]‎, Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1848, page 381 line 8 a fine:
* wheel
* tire
* gears, machinery

##### Declension
### References

* Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “دولاب”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “دولاب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “دولاب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “دولاب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 308

## Azerbaijani
### Noun

دولاب (dolab) (definite accusative دولابی (dolabı), plural دولابلار (dolablar))
* Arabic spelling of dolab (“closet”)

#### Declension
## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Persian دولاب (dolâb, “closet”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /doːˈlaːb/

### Noun

دولاب • (dōlāb) m (plural دَوَاليب (dawālīb))
* closet

## Persian
### Etymology 1

Perhaps from دو (do, “two”) +‎ لاب (lâb, “split, cleft; half”), the latter a lengthened e-grade of the root underlying لب (lab, “lip; edge”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [du.lɑːβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪ʊ.lɑːb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪u.lɔːb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪o.lɒːb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪u.lɔb]

#### Noun

دولاب • (dolâb)
* (now dialectal) cupboard; closet
* trick, fraud, machination

##### Descendants

* → Arabic: دُولَاب (dūlāb)
** → Amharic: ዱላብ (dulab)
* → Armenian: դոլաբ (dolab)
* → Azerbaijani: dolab
* → Central Kurdish: [script needed] (dołab)
* → Northern Kurdish: dolab, dolap, dolav
* → Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)
** Turkish: dolap
** → Albanian: dollap
** → Bulgarian: дола́п (doláp)
** → Romanian: dulap
** → Greek: ντουλάπι (ntoulápi)
** → Ladino: dolap
** → Serbo-Croatian: dòlāp

### Etymology 2

From دول (dul) +‎ آب (âb), or from earlier دلوآب (dalv-âb), from دلو (dalv) + آب (âb), or this is an analogic formation. The vocalism dowlâb is reborrowed from Arabic دَوْلَاب (dawlāb).

#### Noun

دولاب • (dulâb, dowlâb) (plural دولاب‌ها (dulâb, dowlâb-hâ))
* (archaic) water wheel; draw-well
** (archaic) Persian wheel
** 1045-1052, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama
    بر آب دولاب های بسیار ساخته اند.bar âb dulâb-hâye basyâr sâxta-and.[O]ver [the Orontes] river they have built many water wheels.

##### Descendants

* → Arabic: دَوْلَاب (dawlāb)
* → Middle Armenian: դօլապ (dōlap), տոլապ (tolap)
* → Old Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi)
** Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi)
* → Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)

### References

* ↑ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*¹lap-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 68