تبن

تَبَنٍّ • (tabannin) m (construct state تَبَنِّي‎ (tabannī))

1. verbal noun of تَبَنَّى‎ (tabannā) (form V)
2. adoption

Likely borrowed from Aramaic תִּבְנָא‎ /‎ ܕܵܥܟܵܐ‏‎ (teḇnā, “straw”), which is suspected mainly because of the varying vocalization, and also because this root is underdeveloped or it has the unrelated meaning of a “bowl”. The Aramaic might in turn come from Akkadian 𒅔𒉡𒁕 (/tibnu/, “straw”) but can likewise be cognate. Else the word is only present in Hebrew תֶּבֶן‎ (teḇen, “straw”), in which language there is nothing to relate to either.

تِبْن or تَبْن • (tibn or tabn) m (collective, plural أَتْبَان‎ (ʾatbān))

1. straw; hay

• تِبْنِيّ‎ (tibniyy, “straw-related; straw-coloured”)
• تَبَّان‎ (tabbān, “straw vendor”)
• مَتْبَن‎ (matban, “place where the straw is stacked”)
• تَبَنَ‎ (tabana, “to give straw to”)
• تَبَّنَ‎ (tabbana, “to feed straw to; to bung, to cork”)
• تَتَبَّنَ‎ (tatabbana, “to be bunged, to be corked”)

Denominal verb of تِبْن (tibn, “straw”). In the “to bung” sense allegedly motivated by Spanish taponar.

تَبَنَ • (tabana) I, non-past يَتْبِنُ‎‎ (yatbinu)

1. to give straw to, to feed with straw; to sell straw

تَبَّنَ • (tabbana) II, non-past يُتَبِّنُ‎‎ (yutabbinu)

1. to feed with straw
2. to bung, to cork

تَبْن • (tabn) m

1. verbal noun of تَبَنَ (tabana, “to give straw to”)

Uncertain origin with possible connection to Akkadian 𒋰𒉌𒌈 (/tabnītu/, “an offering basket, a place to deposit tribute to a ruler or offerings before deities”, literally “well-arranged, well-made or constructed”) and Akkadian 𒁀𒀀𒉡 (/bānu/, “a ewer, vessel that fills up other vessels”, literally “that which does what it was made for; a by-name for a ewer in ritual texts”), therefore distantly being connected to ب ن ي‎ (b-n-y).

تِبْن • (tibn) m

1. a great bowl that can satisfy the thirst of twenty, a vessel used to fill drinking cups
2. a generous chieftain, one who gives large amounts
3. a wolf for its thirst for blood being likened to a great vessel's amount

Like the more productive root ط ب ن‎ (ṭ-b-n), from which there is with the like meanings طَبِنَ‎ (ṭabina) and طَبِن‎ (ṭabin).

تَبِنَ • (tabina) I, non-past يَتْبَنُ‎‎ (yatbanu)

1. to be sagacious, to be callid, to be skillful in knowing, to be minute in inspection

تَبِن • (tabin)

1. intelligent, callid, sagacious, skillful in knowing, minute in inspection

تَبَن • (taban) m

1. verbal noun of تَبِنَ (tabina, “to be callid”)

تَبِنْ • (tabin) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of بَانَ‎ (bāna)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of بَانَ‎ (bāna)

تَبِنَّ • (tabinna) (form I)

1. second-person feminine plural non-past active indicative of بَانَ‎ (bāna)
2. second-person feminine plural non-past active subjunctive of بَانَ‎ (bāna)
3. second-person feminine plural non-past active jussive of بَانَ‎ (bāna)

تَبْنِ • (tabni) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of بَنَى‎ (banā)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of بَنَى‎ (banā)

تُبْنَ • (tubna) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive of بَنَى‎ (banā)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive of بَنَى‎ (banā)
3. second-person feminine plural active imperative of تَابَ‎ (tāba)
4. third-person feminine plural past active of تَابَ‎ (tāba)

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