ادب

Borrowed from Arabic أَدَب (ʔadab).

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ادب • (adab) (plural آداب, or ادب‌ها (adab-hā / adab-hâ), Tajik spelling адаб)

1. politeness, courtesy, civility, manners, proper conduct
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 112:

     گفت جایی که منم ناله و فریاد مکن
     و گرت نیست تحمل بکش آهی به ادب

     guft jāyē ki man-am nāla u faryād makun
     wa garat nēst tahammul bikaš āhē ba adab

     She said: "Do not cry out and moan at the place where I am,
     And if you do not have the patience, let out a sigh courteously."

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. literature, letters. polite learning
3. discipline

• → Bengali: আদব (adob)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अदब (adab)

  Urdu: اَدَب (adab)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਅਦਬ (adab)

  Shahmukhi script: اَدَب (adab)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “ادب”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَدَب (adab).

اَدَبُ • (adabu) m (Devanagari अदबु)

1. literature
2. politeness, respect

• Sindhi Language Authority (2025), “ادب”, in Online Sindhi Dictionaries‎^[1]

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَدَب (adab).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.d̪əb/
• Rhymes: -əb

اَدَب • (adab) m (Hindi spelling अदब)

1. discipline
2. training
3. politeness
4. respect
5. courtesy
6. urbanity
7. etiquette
8. literature

   Synonym: ساہتیہ

• آداب (ādāb)

From Urdu ادب (adab), from Persian ادب (adab), from Arabic أَدَب (ʔadab).

ادب (edab)

1. discipline
2. training
3. politeness
4. respect
5. courtesy
6. urbanity
7. etiquette
8. literature