شاب — "young man" in Egyptian Arabic
شاب
šabb
young man
- Franco / chat
- shab
- Topic
- mankind and kinship
- Seen in
- 6 of our stories
شاب in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
أحمد كان شاب صغير وكان عايز يبقى فنان مشهور.
Ahmed kan shabb soghayyar we kan ayiz yib-a fannan mash-hoor.
Ahmed was a young man and he wanted to become a famous artist.
الشاب قال مفيش وقت للاكل ونزل الشارع
El shab aal mafeesh waet lel akl wa nezel el sharea
The young man said there is no time for food and went down to the street
from A Rushed Morning
فجأة خبطت في شاب ماشي بسرعة، فقالها الشاب بابتسامة: "السلام عليكم، معلش يا أستاذة."
Fa-ga'a khabṭet fi shabb mashi be-sor3a, fa-2alha el-shabb be-ebtesama: "As-salamu 3alaykum, ma3lesh ya ostaza."
Suddenly she bumped into a young man walking quickly, and the young man said to her with a smile: "Peace be upon you, excuse me, madam."
from Mona's Journey in Khan el-Khalili: A Morning Full of Greetings
سألت شاب صغير ازاي اروح محطة المترو قالي امشي شمال عند المول الجديد
Sa'alt shabb soghayar ezay aroo7 ma7attet el metro, qali emshi shemal 3and el mall el gedid.
I asked a young man how to get to the metro station, he told me to go left at the new mall.
from Lost in Cairo
رد الشاب بابتسامة واسعة، أهلاً بيكي يا منى! أنا كويس خالص الحمد لله، بس إيه اللي جابك هنا الجو حر جدا دلوقتي؟
Radd el-shabb be-ebtesama wase3a, "Ahlan beiki ya Mona! Ana kwayyes khales el-hamdolellah, bas eih elly gabek hena el-gaww harr geddan delwa'ty?"
The young man replied with a wide smile, "Welcome, Mona! I'm perfectly fine, thank God, but what brought you here? The weather is very hot now!"
جنبه شاب صغير ماسك موبايله وبيشوف فيديوهات على التيك توك
Gambo shabb ṣoghāyar māsek mobaylo w byeshūf fīdyohāt ʿala et-Tīk Tok
Next to him, a young man was holding his phone and watching videos on TikTok.