مرحبا - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Related to the verb رَحِبَ (raḥiba, “to be wide”). (The verb رَحَّبَ (raḥḥaba, “to make welcome, to receive graciously”) is derived from this term.)

• IPA^(key): /mar.ħa.ban/, (pausa) /mar.ħa.baː/

مَرْحَبًا • (marḥaban)

1. hello, welcome

• Maltese: merħba
• Moroccan Arabic: مرحبا (marḥba)
• → Afar: marcabá
• → Northern Kurdish: merheba
• → Ottoman Turkish: مرحبا
  • Turkish: merhaba
  • → Bulgarian: мерхаба́ (merhabá), ме́рхаба (mérhaba), мараба́ (marabá)
  • → Macedonian: мерхаба (merhaba)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме̏рха̄ба

    Latin script: mȅrhāba

  • Turkish: merhaba
• → Classical Persian: مَرْحَبَا (marhabā), مَرْحَبًا (marhaban)
  • Tajik: марҳабо (marhabo) (rare, archaic)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: मरहबा (marhabā)
    • Urdu: مَرْحَبَا (marhabā)
  • → Bengali: মরহাবা (môrhaba)
  • → Pashto: مرحبا (marḥabā)
  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਮਰਹਬਾ (marhabā)
    • Shahmukhi script: مرحبا (marḥabā)
• → Swahili: marahaba
• → Zazaki: merheba

From Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

• IPA^(key): /mar.ħa.ba/

مرحبا • (marḥaba)

1. welcome
2. hello

From Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

• IPA^(key): /marħba/

مرحبا • (marḥba)

1. welcome

From Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

مرحبا • (merḥaba)

1. hello

• Turkish: merhaba
• → Bulgarian: мерхаба́ (merhabá), ме́рхаба (mérhaba), мараба́ (marabá)
• → Macedonian: мерхаба (merhaba)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ме̏рха̄ба

  Latin script: mȅrhāba

From Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

• IPA^(key): /mar.ħa.ba/, [ˈmɑr.ħɑ.bɑ]

مرحبا • (marḥaba)

1. hello

   Synonym: (informal) هلا (hala)

• People usually respond to مرحبا (marḥaba) with its dual or plural form:
  • مرحبتين (marḥabtēn, literally “two hellos”)
  • مراحب (marāḥeb, literally “many hellos”)

• أهلا (ʔahla, “welcome”), أهلا وسهلا (ʔahla w-sahla, “welcome”)