شابّ (sheb) — "young man" in Levantine Arabic

شابّ

šēb

young man

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"young man" in the other dialects

Egyptian Arabic

شاب

šabb

Moroccan Darija

شابّ

شابّ 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.

رامي شاب من مدينة عمان.

Rami shab min madinat Amman.

Rami is a young man from the city of Amman.

from Friends in the City

الشاب بيقول شو اسمك ومن وين انت

ash shab biqul shu ismak wa min wein inta

The young man says what is your name and where are you from

from The Grandpa and the Phone

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