تنبان

See also: تنبأن

Persian

Alternative forms

• تمبون (tombun) (colloquial Tehrani)

Etymology

From earlier توبان (tôbân), from Middle Persian, Lurish تمو (temo). Akin to Arabic تُبَّان (tubbān) from the same. Borrowed early into Turkic, Ottoman Turkish طومان (tuman), Azerbaijani tuman. Ultimately derived as equivalent to تن (tan, “body”) +‎ ـبان (-bân, “-keeper”) – similar to تنوره (tanura, “cuirass, corselet; a part of dress worn by dervishes from their middle”), better known as Arabic تَنُّورَة (tannūra), with a different suffix.

Pronunciation

• (Iran) IPA^(key): /tombɒn/

Noun

Dari	تنبان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тунбон

تنبان • (tonbân) (plural تنبان‌ها (tonbân-hâ))

1. breeches
2. (colloquial) trousers

Related terms

• شلوار (šalvâr), ازار (ezâr), چاقچور (čâqčur)

Descendants

• → Armenian: թումբան (tʻumban)
• → Kamkata-viri:

  Kamviri: tamón

  Kativiri: tamón

References

• Eilers, Wilhelm (1962) “Iranisches Lehngut im arabischen Lexikon”, in Indo-Iranian Journal (in German), volume 5, number 3, pages 222–223