# عجب
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕa.d͡ʒi.ba/

#### Verb

عَجِبَ • (ʕajiba) I (non-past يَعْجَبُ (yaʕjabu), verbal noun عَجَب (ʕajab))
* to wonder, to marvel, to be astonished, to be amazed

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

* IPA: /ʕad͡ʒ.d͡ʒa.ba/

#### Verb

عَجَّبَ • (ʕajjaba) II (non-past يُعَجِّبُ (yuʕajjibu), verbal noun تَعْجِيب (taʕjīb))
* to strike with wonder, to strike with astonishment, to surprise

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕud͡ʒb/

#### Noun

عُجْب • (ʕujb) m
* pride, vanity, conceit
    Synonyms: كِبْر (kibr), زَهْو (zahw), غُرُور (ḡurūr); see also Thesaurus:كبرياء

##### Declension
### Etymology 1.4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕa.d͡ʒab/

#### Noun

عَجَب • (ʕajab) m (plural أَعْجَاب (ʔaʕjāb))
* verbal noun of عَجِبَ (ʕajiba) (form I)
* wonder, marvel, astonishment, amazement

##### Declension
#### Adjective

عَجَب • (ʕajab)
* wonderful, marvelous
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 72:1:قُلْ أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ أَنَّهُ ٱسْتَمَعَ نَفَرٌ مِّنَ الْجِنِّ فَقَالُوا إِنَّا سَمِعْنَا قُرْآنًا عَجَبًاqul ʔūḥiya ʔilayya ʔannahu stamaʕa nafarun mina l-jinni faqālū ʔinnā samiʕnā qurʔānan ʕajabanSay, "It has been revealed to me that a team of the jinn listened [to the Qurʾān] and they said, 'We have indeed heard a wonderful Qurʾān.'"

##### Related terms

* أَعْجَبَ (ʔaʕjaba)
* أُعْجُوبَة (ʔuʕjūba)
* تَعَجَّب (taʕajjab)
* تَعْجِيب (taʕjīb)
* عُجَاب (ʕujāb)
* عَجَبًا (ʕajaban)
* عَجِيب (ʕajīb, adjective)
* عَجِيبَة (ʕajība)
* معجب

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: əcəb
* → Bashkir: ғәжәп (ğəjəp, adjective/adverb)
* → Kazakh: ғажап (ğajap)
* →⇒ Middle Armenian: աճպարար (ačparar)
* → Ottoman Turkish: عجب (acep)
** Turkish: acaba, acep (adverb)
** → Middle Armenian: աճապ (ačap)
*** Armenian: աջաբ (aǰab), աճապ (ačap), աճափ (ačapʻ), ա̈ջա̈փ (äǰäpʻ)
* → Persian: عجب ('ajab)
** → Urdu: عجب (ajab)
** ⇒ Bengali: আজব (ajob)
* → Swahili: ajabu
* → Uyghur: ئەجەب (ejeb)
* → Uzbek: ajab

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic أَعْجَبَ (ʔaʕjaba).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕa.d͡ʒab/, [ʕa.d͡ʒab], [ʕa.ʒab]

### Verb

عَجَب • (ʕajab) I (non-past يِعْجِب (yiʕjib))
* to like
* to be astonished, to be amazed

#### Conjugation
## Persian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic عَجَب (ʕajab).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔa.ˈd͡ʒaβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔä.d͡ʒǽb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔä.d͡ʒǽb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔä.d͡ʒǽb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔä.d͡ʒǽb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæ.d͡ʒǽb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔä.d͡ʒǽb]

#### Noun

عَجَب • ('ajab)
* wonder, marvel, astonishment, amazement
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 1394:در چنین مستی مراعات ادب، خود نباشد ور بود باشد عجبdar čonin masti mora'at-e adab, xod na-bâšad v-ar bovad bâšad 'ajab.In such [mystical] intoxication [as his], the observance of due respect [to the letter of the Qur'an] will not be there at all; or if it be, 'tis a wonder.

#### Interjection

عَجَب • ('ajab)
* what a wonder, how strange, amazing
** 1177, Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, منطق الطیر [The Conference of the Birds], volumes lines 733—737:ابتدای کار سیمرغ ای عجب، جلوه‌گر بگذشت بر چین نیم شب، در میان چین فتاد از وی پری، لاجرم پر شور شد هر کشوری.ebtedâ-ye kâr-e simorğ ey 'ajab, jelow-gar be-gozašt bar čin nim-šab, dar miyân-e čin fatâd az vey par-i, lâ-jaram por-šur šod har kešvar-i.The beginning of [this] affair of the Simorgh, oh how wondrous! It passed in China in full splendor one midnight, and a feather fell from it in the middle of China. Consequently, each country became ardent [to see the feather].

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic عُجْب (ʕujb).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔud͡ʒβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔʊd͡ʒb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔʊd͡ʒb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔʊd͡ʒb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔud͡ʒb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔod͡ʒb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔud͡ʒb]

#### Noun

عُجب • ('ojb)
* pride, vanity, conceit

## South Levantine Arabic
### Alternative forms

* أعجب (ʔaʕjab) (MSA-influenced form)

### Etymology 1

From Arabic أَعْجَبَ (ʔaʕjaba).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕa.ʒab/, [ˈʕa.ʒab], [ˈʕa.d͡ʒab]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

عجب • (ʕajab) I (present بعجب (biʕjeb), active participle عاجب (ʕājeb))
* to amaze, to impress
* (by extension, transitive) to be pleasing
    Synonym: جنّن (jannan)
    عجبتني كتير اغنيتها.ʕajbatni ktīr oḡnyetha.I really liked her song.(literally, “Her song was very pleasing to me.”)
    مش عاجبهم الشغل معها.miš ʕājebhom iš-šoḡol maʕha.They don't like working with her.(literally, “Work with her is not pleasing to them.”)

##### Usage notes

* Pragmatically, this verb means "to like", with the agent grammatically expressed as the object of pleasure; this construction is analogous to the Spanish verb "gustar".

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic عَجَّبَ (ʕajjaba).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕaʒ.ʒab/, [ˈʕaʒ.ʒab], [ˈʕad.d͡ʒab]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

عجّب • (ʕajjab) II (present بعجّب (biʕajjeb))
* to amaze, to surprise, to astonish