دبيل

See also: دبیل

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.biːl/

Etymology 1

From the root د ب ل (d-b-l). Similar meanings are found in د م ل (d-m-l) and د ء ث (d-ʔ-ṯ).

Noun

دَبِيل • (dabīl) m (plural دُبُل (dubul))

1. anything solid that loosens from something and is perceived by an individual as excessive or abscessive by reason of impairing him.

Declension

Declension of noun دَبِيل (dabīl)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَبِيل dabīl	الدَّبِيل ad-dabīl	دَبِيل dabīl
Nominative	دَبِيلٌ dabīlun	الدَّبِيلُ ad-dabīlu	دَبِيلُ dabīlu
Accusative	دَبِيلًا dabīlan	الدَّبِيلَ ad-dabīla	دَبِيلَ dabīla
Genitive	دَبِيلٍ dabīlin	الدَّبِيلِ ad-dabīli	دَبِيلِ dabīli
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَبِيلَيْن dabīlayn	الدَّبِيلَيْن ad-dabīlayn	دَبِيلَيْ dabīlay
Nominative	دَبِيلَانِ dabīlāni	الدَّبِيلَانِ ad-dabīlāni	دَبِيلَا dabīlā
Accusative	دَبِيلَيْنِ dabīlayni	الدَّبِيلَيْنِ ad-dabīlayni	دَبِيلَيْ dabīlay
Genitive	دَبِيلَيْنِ dabīlayni	الدَّبِيلَيْنِ ad-dabīlayni	دَبِيلَيْ dabīlay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُبُل dubul	الدُّبُل ad-dubul	دُبُل dubul
Nominative	دُبُلٌ dubulun	الدُّبُلُ ad-dubulu	دُبُلُ dubulu
Accusative	دُبُلًا dubulan	الدُّبُلَ ad-dubula	دُبُلَ dubula
Genitive	دُبُلٍ dubulin	الدُّبُلِ ad-dubuli	دُبُلِ dubuli

Etymology 2

In most of the time this city was relevant and the Arabs have expanded thus far it was chiefly populated by Kurds, so potentially mediated by Proto-Kurdish, otherwise obtained via Middle Persian during the conquest of the Sasanian Empire culminating in the Arab conquest of Armenia, which must have obtained this word from Parthian as the settlement was built 335 under Arsacid rule, however searches for Iranian origin have been in vain, leading to the suspicion of the Arsacids bringing a Turkmen name from their homeland. As Ardabil was even less known it is neither known whether it contains the same word.

Proper noun

دَبِيل • (dabīl) f

1. Dvin (a former city in Ararat Province, Armenia, in the early Middle Ages the capital of Great Armenia and larger than Ardabil, now the village Դվին (Dvin) 20 km south of Yerevan)
   • a. 957, آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, كتاب مسالك الممالك وهو معول على كتاب صور الأقاليم [kitāb masālik al-mamālik wa-huwa muʿawwal ʿalā kitāb ṣuwar al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 1)‎^[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1870, pages 193 line 4 and page 194 lines 1, 12, 14:

Declension

Declension of noun دَبِيل (dabīl)

Singular	basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	دَبِيل dabīl	—
Nominative	—	دَبِيلُ dabīlu	—
Accusative	—	دَبِيلَ dabīla	—
Genitive	—	دَبِيلَ dabīla	—

Further reading

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “دبيل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 6b
• Le Strange, Guy (1905) The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 182–183
• a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎^[3], volume 2, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1867, web page 438, pages 548–549: