دنب

See also: دنت and ذنب

Arabic

Adjective

دِنَّب • (dinnab) (feminine دِنَّبَة (dinnaba) or دِنَابَة (dināba))

short, small, dwarf

Declension

Declension of adjective دِنَّب (dinnab)

Singular	Masculine		Feminine
	basic singular triptote		singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	دِنَّب dinnab	الدِّنَّب ad-dinnab	دِنَّبَة dinnaba	الدِّنَّبَة ad-dinnaba
Nominative	دِنَّبٌ dinnabun	الدِّنَّبُ ad-dinnabu	دِنَّبَةٌ dinnabatun	الدِّنَّبَةُ ad-dinnabatu
Accusative	دِنَّبًا dinnaban	الدِّنَّبَ ad-dinnaba	دِنَّبَةً dinnabatan	الدِّنَّبَةَ ad-dinnabata
Genitive	دِنَّبٍ dinnabin	الدِّنَّبِ ad-dinnabi	دِنَّبَةٍ dinnabatin	الدِّنَّبَةِ ad-dinnabati
Dual	Masculine		Feminine
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	دِنَّبَيْن dinnabayn	الدِّنَّبَيْن ad-dinnabayn	دِنَّبَتَيْن dinnabatayn	الدِّنَّبَتَيْن ad-dinnabatayn
Nominative	دِنَّبَانِ dinnabāni	الدِّنَّبَانِ ad-dinnabāni	دِنَّبَتَانِ dinnabatāni	الدِّنَّبَتَانِ ad-dinnabatāni
Accusative	دِنَّبَيْنِ dinnabayni	الدِّنَّبَيْنِ ad-dinnabayni	دِنَّبَتَيْنِ dinnabatayni	الدِّنَّبَتَيْنِ ad-dinnabatayni
Genitive	دِنَّبَيْنِ dinnabayni	الدِّنَّبَيْنِ ad-dinnabayni	دِنَّبَتَيْنِ dinnabatayni	الدِّنَّبَتَيْنِ ad-dinnabatayni
Plural	Masculine		Feminine
	plural unknown		sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	? ?	? ?	دِنَّبَات dinnabāt	الدِّنَّبَات ad-dinnabāt
Nominative	? ?	? ?	دِنَّبَاتٌ dinnabātun	الدِّنَّبَاتُ ad-dinnabātu
Accusative	? ?	? ?	دِنَّبَاتٍ dinnabātin	الدِّنَّبَاتِ ad-dinnabāti
Genitive	? ?	? ?	دِنَّبَاتٍ dinnabātin	الدِّنَّبَاتِ ad-dinnabāti

Moroccan Arabic

Root
د ن ب
1 term

Etymology 1

From Arabic ذَنْب (ḏanb).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /danb/

Noun

دنب • (danb) m (plural دنوب (dnūb))

sin
Synonyms: خطية (ḵaṭiyya), سيئة (sayyiʔa), معصية (maʕṣya, muʕṣya)

Etymology 2

From Arabic ذَنَبَ (ḏanaba).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dnab/

Verb

دنب • (dnab) I (non-past يدنب (yidnab))

to sin
Synonym: خطى (ḵṭā)

Persian

Alternative forms

دم (dom), دمب (domb)

Etymology

From Middle Persian dwm(b') (/⁠dum(b)⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewmbʰ- (“penis, tail, rod”); compare German Zumpf (“penis”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬨𐬀 (duma, “penis”), Kurdish, Northern Kurdish dûv (“tail”), Baluchi (domb), Sarikoli [script needed] (δüm), Wakhi [script needed] (dümbá), Pashto لم (lëm, “tail of sheep”), Ossetian дымӕг (dymæg), Sogdian dwnp'k (δum/nb/pe), Sanskrit दुम्बक (dumbaka, “the thick-tailed sheep”).

Akin to Old Armenian դմակ (dmak, “fat tail of sheep”), Georgian დუმაკი (dumaḳi), დუმა (duma), Iranian borrowings. Perhaps also cognate with Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“top, summit”) (whence English top).

For the sense development compare Old Armenian ձետ (jet).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dunβ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊmb]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊmb]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪umb̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪omb̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪umb]

Readings
Classical reading^?	dunb
Dari reading^?	dunb
Iranian reading^?	donb
Tajik reading^?	dunb

Noun

دُنْب • (donb)

tail

Related terms

دنبه (donbe)
دنبال (donbâl)
دنباله (donbâle)
دنبل (donbal)
دنبلان (donbalân)

References

MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “dwm(b')”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 28
Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 479
Pokorny, Julius (1959) “dumb-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 227
Nourai, Ali (2011) “دم”, in An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 112
Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 128
Gharib, B. (1995) “dwnp'k”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 146
Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 144