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أأبن

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Soqotri

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *ʔabn-. Akin to Mehri [script needed] (ḥawbin).

Noun

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أأبن (óʔobənf (dual أبني (óbni), plural أبهن (ö́bhon))

  1. stone
    • 2014, “Picking Out a Husband for One's Daughter”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 122, line 15:
      وداه بحڸف بيڛي شرهم وبيڛي أبهن.
      wa-də bə-ḥaḷf bíŝi šérhom wa-bíŝi ö́bhon
      For the place had neither trees nor stones.

References

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  • Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 464
  • Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 378
  • Leslau, Wolf (1938) “ʾóben”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 49