قبان
Arabic
قَبَّان
Alternative forms
- قَفَّان (qaffān)
Etymology
From Aeolic Greek καπᾱ́νᾱ (kapā́nā), καπᾱ́νη (kapā́nē, literally “cross-piece of a harness as well as a chariot”), corresponding to classical ἀπήνη (apḗnē, “mule-drawn chariot”). Itself a Northwest Semitic loanword, attested as Ugaritic 𐎀𐎔𐎐 (ảpn, “wheel (in the most usual sense, like on a chariot)”) and Hebrew אוֹפַן (ʾōp̄án, “wheel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /qab.baːn/
- Rhymes: -aːn
Noun
قَبَّان • (qabbān) m
- stilyard [from the later 11th century]
- Synonym: قَرَسْطُون (qarasṭūn)
Declension
Declension of noun قَبَّان (qabbān)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | قَبَّان qabbān | الْقَبَّان al-qabbān | قَبَّان qabbān |
| Nominative | قَبَّانٌ qabbānun | الْقَبَّانُ al-qabbānu | قَبَّانُ qabbānu |
| Accusative | قَبَّانًا qabbānan | الْقَبَّانَ al-qabbāna | قَبَّانَ qabbāna |
| Genitive | قَبَّانٍ qabbānin | الْقَبَّانِ al-qabbāni | قَبَّانِ qabbāni |
Derived terms
- قَبَّنَ (qabbana, “to weigh with a steelyard”)
References
- Abattouy, Mohammed (2011), “A New Arabic Text of Mechanics: Sinan ibn Thabit on the Theory of Simple Machines”, in Muslim Heritage
- Freytag, Georg (1835), “قبان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 395b
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “قبان”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 670a
- Szemerényi, Oswald (1974), “The origins of the Greek lexicon: Ex Oriente Lux”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 94, DOI:, pages 149–150