أأبن
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Soqotri
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- آبن (óbən)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Semitic *ʔabn-. Akin to Mehri [script needed] (ḥawbin).
Noun
[edit]أأبن (óʔobən) f (dual أبني (óbni), plural أبهن (ö́bhon))
- 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
[edit]- Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, , →ISBN, page 464
- Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, , →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