# سبب
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sab.ba.ba/
* Noun:(file)

#### Verb

سَبَّبَ • (sabbaba) II (non-past يُسَبِّبُ (yusabbibu), verbal noun تَسْبِيب (tasbīb))
* to cause, to effect, to trigger, to generate

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sa.bab/

#### Noun

سَبَب • (sabab) m (plural أَسْبَاب (ʔasbāb))
* (chiefly Classical Arabic) cable, rope
    Synonyms: حَبْل (ḥabl), مَرَسَة (marasa), رِبَاط (ribāṭ), قَلْس (qals), أَشْل (ʔašl), طُنُب (ṭunub), مَرَار (marār), إِصَار (ʔiṣār), مَأْصِر (maʔṣir), سِلْسِلَة (silsila), مِقَاط (miqāṭ)
* cause, grounds, aetiological reason
    بِسَبَب ذٰلِكَ ― bi-sabab ḏālika ― because of that
** a. 1233 CE, Ibn al-Athīr, الكامل في التاريخ‎, 1st edition, volume 4, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, published 1997, page 81:وَكَانَ سَبَبُ قَتْلِهِ أَنَّ أَبَاهُ اسْتَعْمَلَهُ عَلَى الْأَنْدَلُسِ، كَمَا ذَكَرْنَا، عِنْدَ عَوْدِهِ إِلَى الشَّامِ، فَضَبَطَهَا وَسَدَّدَ أُمُورَهَا، وَحَمَى ثُغُورَهَا، وَافْتَتَحَ فِي إِمَارَتِهِ مَدَائِنَ بَقِيَتْ بَعْدَ أَبِيهِ،(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* alibi

##### Derived terms

* بسبب

##### Descendants

* → Armenian: սաբաբ (sabab)
* → Avar: сабаб (sabab)
* → Azerbaijani: səbəb
* → Bashkir: сәбәп (səbəp)
* → Crimean Tatar: sebep
* → Fula: sababu
* → Georgian: საბაბი (sababi)
* → Hausa: sabàbī
* → Hindi: सबब (sabab)
* → Indonesian: sebab
* → Kazakh: себеп (sebep)
* → Kyrgyz: себеп (sebep)
* → Ladino: sebeb, sebep
* → Malay: sebab
* → Pashto: سبب (sabáb)
* → Persian: سبب (sabab)
* → Somali: sabab, sababta
* → Swahili: sababu
* → Tajik: сабаб (sabab)
* → Tatar: сәбәп (säbäp)
* → Turkish: sebep
* → Turkmen: sebäp
* → Urdu: سبب (sabab)
* → Uyghur: سەۋەب (seweb)
* → Uzbek: sabab
* → Yoruba: sábàbí

### References

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “سب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Malay
### Noun

سبب (plural سبب-سبب or سبب٢, informal 1st possessive سببکو, 2nd possessive سببمو, 3rd possessive سببڽ)
* Jawi spelling of sebab‎.

### Conjunction

سبب
* Jawi spelling of sebab‎.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic سَبَب (sabab).

### Noun

سبب • (sebeb)
* cause, reason
* motive

#### Descendants

* Turkish: sebep
* → Albanian: sebep
* → Armenian: սեպեպ (sepep), սա̈բա̈բ (säbäb)

### References

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سبب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 662b
* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “sebep”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَبَب (sabab).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [sa.ˈβaβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.bǽb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.bǽb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sä.bǽb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sä.bǽb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæ.bǽb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sä.bǽb]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

سبب • (sabab) (plural اسباب (asbâb))
* cause, reason
    Synonyms: باعث (bâ'es), دلیل (dalil)
    سبب این حادثه ― sabab-e in hâdese ― the cause of this incident
    سبب کاهش قیمت‌ها ― sabab-e kâheš-e qeymat-hâ ― the cause of the decline in prices
** c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 4”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]:ندانم از چه سبب رنگ آشنایی نیست سهی قدان سیه چشم ماه سیما راna-dânam az če sabab rang-e âšenâyi nist sahi qaddân-e siyah čašm-e mâh simâ râI do not know for what reason there is no hue of recognition from these ones standing tall, with black eyes and moon-like faces.

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: સબબ (sabab)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic سَبَّبَ (sabbaba).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sab.bab/, [ˈsab.bab]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

سبّب • (sabbab) II (present بسبّب (bisabbeb))
* to cause, to produce, to bring about
    التضخم المالي بسبّب لمجتمعنا الاستقرار.il-taḍaḵḵom al-māli bisabbeb la-mujtamʕana al-istaqrārInflation brings about instability in our society.
    الطقس سبّب هالتّأخير. ― il-taʕs sabbab ha-t-tʕaḵīr ― The weather caused this delay.