سبستان
Appearance
Arabic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- سِكْبِسْتَان (sikbistān) — obsolete, uncommon
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian سپستان (sipistān), سگپستان (sigpistān), سگپستان (sag-pistān, literally “dog teat”), from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pistān, “teat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]سِبِسْتَان • (sibistān) m
Declension
[edit]Declension of noun سِبِسْتَان (sibistān)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | سِبِسْتَان sibistān |
السِّبِسْتَان as-sibistān |
سِبِسْتَان sibistān |
Nominative | سِبِسْتَانٌ sibistānun |
السِّبِسْتَانُ as-sibistānu |
سِبِسْتَانُ sibistānu |
Accusative | سِبِسْتَانًا sibistānan |
السِّبِسْتَانَ as-sibistāna |
سِبِسْتَانَ sibistāna |
Genitive | سِبِسْتَانٍ sibistānin |
السِّبِسْتَانِ as-sibistāni |
سِبِسْتَانِ sibistāni |
Descendants
[edit]- → Medieval Latin: sebesten
- → English: sebesten (learned)
- → French: sébeste (learned)
- ⇒ French: sébestier
- → Italian: sebesteno (learned)
- → Spanish: sebestén (learned)
- ⇒ Medieval Latin: diasebesten
- → English: diasebesten (learned)
- → French: diasébeste (learned)
References
[edit]- Freytag, Georg (1833) “سبستان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 278