अब ab

अब aba ab (adv) now; —का recent, modern; —की/के this time; next time; —जाकर at long last; -तब करना to evade, to dilly-dally; -तब होना to be on the verge of death; —से now onwards, in future; —पछताये होत क्या जब चिड़िया चुग गई खेत to cry over spilt milk, to waste one's regrets.

H اب अब ab, (prob. formed by analogy after jab, tab, &c. q.v.), adv. Now, presently, just now, now-a-days, a little while ago, recently. — ab-bhī, adv. Even now, yet, as yet, still. — ab-tab, adv. Now and then, presently, very shortly: — ab-tab karna, To put off continually, to delay; to evade, shuffle: — ab-tab hona, To be in a dying state, to be at the point of death. — ab-tak and ab-talak, adv. Up to the present time, till now; as yet, hitherto; all this time. — ab-taʼīṅ, ab-torī, ab-toṛī, ab-teṅ = ab-tak, q.v. — ab-se, adv. From this time, henceforth, henceforward, in future, hence: — ab-se dūr, Far be it from us! Heaven preserve us! Avaunt! (The phrase is generally used — especially by women — to deprecate the recurrence of a past misfortune). — ab-kā, adj. (f. -kī). Of the present; for the present; this, the present; the next, the following, the coming; new, fresh: — ab-ke, adv. This time, the next time: — ab-kībār, Idem. — ab-lag, ab-loṅ, ab-le, ab-leṅ, adv. = ab-tak, q.v. — ab-na-tab, adv. Neither now nor then; neither here (on earth) nor in the world to come; nowhere; never. — ab-hī, adv. Just now, this very moment, instantly, immediately; already.