توب

Meanings

1. hood, ness, dom
2. A particle affixed to nouns and adjectives, together with والي, تیا etc. to denote state or quality, in the same manner as English ness
3. a suffix added to nouns and adjectives to form nouns with stative meaning ("the state of being X"): -ness, -hood, -ship
4. suffix to nouns and adjectives in the same manner as English ness, to be, hood, ness, dom suffix

Pashto definitions

1. دَ اسم يا صفت په اخر کښې دَ کېفيت يا حالت دَ څرګندولو دَ پاره استعماليږي، لکه سړيتوب

Examples

• ماشوم (mâšum, “child”) + توب (-tob) → ماشومتوب (mâšumtob, “childhood”)

• خوندي (xwandi, “safe”) + توب (-tob) → هوندیتوب (xwanditob, “safety”)