# جیب
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

### Noun

جیب • (ceb, cep, ceyb, cib) (definite accusative جیبی (cebi), plural جیبلر (cebler, cepler), plural جیوب (cüyub, cüyup), plural جیبات (ceybat))
* pocket, a bag- or envelop-like receptacle stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items
* (mathematics) sine, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse

#### Derived terms

* جیب الماسی (ceb elması, “flirtatious person”)
* جیب دفتری (ceb defteri, “pocketbook”)
* جیب همایون (ceb-i hümayun, “the Sultan's financial resources”)
* جیبدن (cebden, “out of one's own pocket”)
* جیبه ال ایتمك (cebe el etmek, “to finance, fund”)
* جیبی (ceybî, “pertaining to a sine”)
* جیبی دلیك (cebi delik, “spendthrift, big spender”)
* ساعت جیبی (saʼat cebi, “watch pocket”)
* قوین جیبی (koyun cebi, “breast pocket, besom pocket”)
* یان جیبی (yan cebi, “fob”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: cep
* → Albanian: xhep
* → Bulgarian: джоб (džob)
* → Greek: τσέπη (tsépi)
* → Hungarian: zseb
* → Ladino: djep
* → Laz: ჯები (cebi), ჟები (jebi) — Vizha, ჯებე (cebe) — Akçakoca
* → Macedonian: џеб (džeb)
* → Middle Armenian: ճէպ (čēp)
** Armenian: ջեբ (ǰeb), ճեպ (čep), ջիբ (ǰib), ջոբ (ǰob), ջուբ (ǰub), ջիպ (ǰip), ջեպ (ǰep), ջոպ (ǰop), ջուպ (ǰup), ջէբ (ǰēb), ճէպ (čēp) — traditional orthography
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џе̏п, же̏п (colloquial)
    Latin script: džȅp, žȅp (colloquial)
* → Slovene: žep

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جیب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 547
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cep3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 778
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جیب”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 193b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جیب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 453
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sinus vestis”, 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 1562
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جیب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1697
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cep”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جیب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 695

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [d͡ʒeːβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒeːb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒeːb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d͡ʒeːb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d͡ʒeːb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒiːb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒeb]

### Noun

جیب • (jib)
* pocket
* (trigonometry, mathematics, archaic) sine
* (archaic) collar

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: জেপ (zep)
* → Azerbaijani: cib
* → Bengali: জেব (jeb)
* → Georgian: ჯიბე (ǯibe)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: जेब (jeb)
    Urdu: جیب (jeb), جَیب (jaib)
* → Ottoman Turkish: جیب (ceb, cep)
** Turkish: cep
** → Albanian: xhep
** → Bulgarian: джоб (džob)
** → Greek: τσέπη (tsépi)
** → Hungarian: zseb
** → Ladino: djep
** → Laz: ჯები (cebi), ჟები (jebi) — Vizha, ჯებე (cebe) — Akçakoca
** → Macedonian: џеб (džeb)
** → Middle Armenian: ճէպ (čēp)
*** Armenian: ջեբ (ǰeb), ճեպ (čep), ջիբ (ǰib), ջոբ (ǰob), ջուբ (ǰub), ջիպ (ǰip), ջեպ (ǰep), ջոպ (ǰop), ջուպ (ǰup), ջէբ (ǰēb), ճէպ (čēp) — traditional orthography
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џе̏п, же̏п (colloquial)
    Latin script: džȅp, žȅp (colloquial)
** → Slovene: žep
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਜੇਬ (jeb)
    Shahmukhi script: جیب (jeb)

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), borrowed from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /d͡ʒeːb/, [d͡ʒeː˦bᵊ]

### Noun

جیب • (jeb) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਜੇਬ)
* pocket
    Synonyms: بوجھا (bojhā), گِیجھا (gījhā), کِھیسا (khiesā)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “جَیب”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
* Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “جیب”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
* “ਜੇਬ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

## Torwali
### Etymology

From Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā, “tongue”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”). Cognate with Kalasha ǰhip, Hindi जीभ (jībh), Persian زبان (zabân), French langue, German Zunge.

### Noun

جیب (ǰīb) f
* tongue

### References

* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “jihvāˊ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), borrowed from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d͡ʒeːb/

### Noun

جیب • (jeb) f (Hindi spelling जेब)
* pocket

#### Declension

Declension of جیب :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | جیب (jeb) | جیبیں (jebẽ) |
| oblique | جیب (jeb) | جیبوں (jebõ) |
| vocative | جیب (jeb) | جیبو (jebo) |

### Further reading

* “جیب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “جیب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “جیب”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

## Ushojo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu جیب (jeb), from Classical Persian جیب (jēb), from Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

### Noun

جیب (jeb)
* pocket