/dab.baː.ba/
OriginTool noun from دَبَّ (dabba, “to crawl, to creep”).
- tank, armoured vehicle
- historicalA kind of medieval siege engine designed to shelter men who are digging a hole in enemy fortifications
“ولما تكاملت عنده آلات القتال من المناجنيق والدبابات والستائر وغير ذلك نازل عليها في ثاني وعشرين وضائقها وقاتلها قتالا عظيما” — Having finished erecting the machines of war, mangonels, crawlers and blinds and more he attacked it the twenty-second time, tightly in a rough clash.
- anything that creeps; an animal that creeps or crawls
“وَقَالَ اللَّٰهُ: «لِتُخْرِجِ الأَرْضُ ذَوَاتِ أَنْفُسٍ حَيَّةٍ كَجِنْسِهَا: بَهَائِمَ، وَدَبَّابَاتٍ، وَوُحُوشَ أَرْضٍ كَأَجْنَاسِهَا». وَكَانَ كَذَٰلِكَ.” — And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
Formsدَبَّابَة(canonical, feminine) · dabbāba(romanization) · دَبَّابَات(plural) · دَبَّابَة(ar-infl-a, indefinite, informal, singular, triptote) · الدَّبَّابَة(ar-infl-a, definite, informal, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَة(ar-infl-a, construct, informal, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَةٌ(ar-infl-a, indefinite, nominative, singular, triptote) · الدَّبَّابَةُ(ar-infl-a, definite, nominative, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَةُ(ar-infl-a, construct, nominative, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَةً(accusative, ar-infl-a, indefinite, singular, triptote) · الدَّبَّابَةَ(accusative, ar-infl-a, definite, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَةَ(accusative, ar-infl-a, construct, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَةٍ(ar-infl-a, genitive, indefinite, singular, triptote) · الدَّبَّابَةِ(ar-infl-a, definite, genitive, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَةِ(ar-infl-a, construct, genitive, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَتَيْن(ar-infl-a, dual, indefinite, informal, singular, triptote) · الدَّبَّابَتَيْن(ar-infl-a, definite, dual, informal, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَتَيْ(ar-infl-a, construct, dual, informal, singular, triptote) · دَبَّابَتَانِ(ar-infl-a, dual, indefinite, nominative, singular, triptote) · الدَّبَّابَتَانِ(ar-infl-a, definite, dual, nominative, singular, triptote)
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