سبطانة
Arabic
Alternative forms
- زَرْبَطَانَة (zarbaṭāna), زَبَطَانَة (zabaṭāna)
Etymology
From Malay سومڤيتن / sumpitan (“blowpipe”), derived from Malay سومڤيت / sumpit (“blowpipe”), matched to the Arabic root س ب ط (s-b-ṭ) “related to slenderness, lankness”. Also passed into Persian زبطانه (zabatâne), زربطانه (zarbatâne).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.ba.tˤaː.na/
Noun
سَبَطَانَة • (sabaṭāna) f (plural سَبَطَانَات (sabaṭānāt))
- (weaponry) blowpipe
- (firearms) barrel, pipe
Declension
Declension of noun سَبَطَانَة (sabaṭāna)
| Singular | singular triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَبَطَانَة sabaṭāna | السَّبَطَانَة as-sabaṭāna | سَبَطَانَة sabaṭānat |
| Nominative | سَبَطَانَةٌ sabaṭānatun | السَّبَطَانَةُ as-sabaṭānatu | سَبَطَانَةُ sabaṭānatu |
| Accusative | سَبَطَانَةً sabaṭānatan | السَّبَطَانَةَ as-sabaṭānata | سَبَطَانَةَ sabaṭānata |
| Genitive | سَبَطَانَةٍ sabaṭānatin | السَّبَطَانَةِ as-sabaṭānati | سَبَطَانَةِ sabaṭānati |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | سَبَطَانَتَيْن sabaṭānatayn | السَّبَطَانَتَيْن as-sabaṭānatayn | سَبَطَانَتَيْ sabaṭānatay |
| Nominative | سَبَطَانَتَانِ sabaṭānatāni | السَّبَطَانَتَانِ as-sabaṭānatāni | سَبَطَانَتَا sabaṭānatā |
| Accusative | سَبَطَانَتَيْنِ sabaṭānatayni | السَّبَطَانَتَيْنِ as-sabaṭānatayni | سَبَطَانَتَيْ sabaṭānatay |
| Genitive | سَبَطَانَتَيْنِ sabaṭānatayni | السَّبَطَانَتَيْنِ as-sabaṭānatayni | سَبَطَانَتَيْ sabaṭānatay |
| Plural | sound feminine plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَبَطَانَات sabaṭānāt | السَّبَطَانَات as-sabaṭānāt | سَبَطَانَات sabaṭānāt |
| Nominative | سَبَطَانَاتٌ sabaṭānātun | السَّبَطَانَاتُ as-sabaṭānātu | سَبَطَانَاتُ sabaṭānātu |
| Accusative | سَبَطَانَاتٍ sabaṭānātin | السَّبَطَانَاتِ as-sabaṭānāti | سَبَطَانَاتِ sabaṭānāti |
| Genitive | سَبَطَانَاتٍ sabaṭānātin | السَّبَطَانَاتِ as-sabaṭānāti | سَبَطَانَاتِ sabaṭānāti |
Descendants
- → Catalan: sarabatana, sarbatana
- → French: sarbacane
- → Italian: cerbottana
- → Portuguese: zarabatana, sarabatana, zarvatana
- → Spanish: cerbatana
References
- Corriente, Federico (2008), “cerbatana”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 257, where they do not know the Malay origin and claim an influence of South Arabian variants of Proto-Semitic *šabaṭ- (“to beat”), which is semantically and chronologically unlikely. Note that they do not have this word in the Andalusi dictionary Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, which is another sign that this is borrowed later and from farther east.
- Freytag, Georg (1833), “زبطانة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 223
- Freytag, Georg (1833), “سبطانة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 278