𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕
Punic
Alternative forms
- *𐤀𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕 (*ʾlbnt /əlḇūnaṯ/)
Etymology
Cognate to Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (ləḇōnā), Arabic لُبَان (lubān), Ancient Greek λῐ́βᾰνος (líbanos), all meaning “frankincense”. From the same root as 𐤋𐤁𐤍 (lbn /laban/, “white”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lvuːnaθ/, /əlvuːnaθ/
Noun
𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕 (lbnt /lḇūnaṯ/) f (plural 𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤅𐤕 (lbnwt /lḇūnūṯ/))
- frankincense
- 1962, Donner, Herbert; Röllig, Wolfgang, Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, line B 6 of number 76 on page 20, from Carthage, which is reproduced No. 241 line 14 in Julius Euting’s 1883 Sammlung der Carthagischen Inschriften, also interpreted and transcribed by Joseph Derenbourg Sur les offrandes de prémices in Journal asiatique February–March 1874 pages 204–227:
- 𐤅𐤒𐤈𐤓𐤕 𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕 𐤃𐤒𐤕
- wqṭrt lbnt dqt
- and drops of frankincense in a finely ground state
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Descendants
- → Demotic: ꜣlbwnṱ
- Old Coptic: ⲁⲗⲃⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩⲧ (albounout)
References
- Steiner, Richard C. (2001), “Albounout “Frankincense” and Alsounalph “Oxtongue”: Phoenician-Punic Botanical Terms with Prothetic Vowels from an Egyptian Papyrus and a Byzantine Codex”, in Orientalia, volume 70, issue 1, pages 97–103