باب

Meaning

1. door, gate
2. opening, gateway
3. entrance
4. gullet, weasand
5. opportunity, a chance, opening
6. military tactic, maneuver, an opening to use a strategy
7. chapter, section, column
8. group, class, category
9. appearance of an astronomical body, a juncture, an opening to observe
10. (figuratively) domain, field

Concepts

door

🚪

category

gate

Babylon

class

heading

kind

sort

type

part

variety

chapter

family

👪

head

header

Synonyms

جنس

صفّ

فصل

طبقة

بَاب

جِنْس

صِنْف

أبواب

فئة

عُنْوان

عائِلة

رأْس

نوْع

مرْتبة

رأْس موْضُوع

عُنْوان رئِيسِي

bāb

Translations

porte

🚪

porta

🚪

porta

puerta

🚪

Tür

🚪

porta

kapı

🚪

deur

🚪

θύρα

πόρτα

derî

🚪

ianua

ostium

🚪

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baːb/

Etymology

Usually considered a borrowing from Aramaic בָּבָא (bāḇā, “gate”), from Akkadian 𒆍 (bābum, “gate”), particularly since the Arabs, living in tents, did not need doors. However, Hans Bauer considers all of these words native, explaining the formation as an ancient univerbation of etyma equivalent to Arabic بَاءَ (bāʔa) بِ (bi) “he has entered into (the house)”.