gwb
basic morphological information

v. (I)

to answer
отвечать
جاوب
CSOL II 468; Naumkin et al. 2019b:78
text examples

wa-tóˀo zéˁe estád díˀʸho wáraḳa ṭáhɛrk wa-šérḳaḥk di-tɛr ˁémer énhi díˀʸho aṣḥáb ásˀiľa ˁíẓ̂o wa-ˀaḷ-gawábna ‘When the professor took my sheet, and I went outside, my fellow students said to me: “The questions were hard, we couldn’t answer.”’ (CSOL II 30:20)

other notes

Also cf. gawáb ‘answer’: ˁámok e-de ˁouyέghɛn de di-le-ˀamt énhi ifúl de gawáb wa-ḥárif énhi ˁaf ešɛˀíyin ‘I told the boy who was next to me: “How is the answer to this question?” and he gave me a hint so that I understood it.’ (Naumkin et al. 2019b:78)

etymology

An Arabism (Wehr 145, Behnstedt 216)