قبان

Arabic

قَبَّان

Alternative forms

• قَفَّان (qaffān), قَنْبَان (qanbān)

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek κάμπανος (kámpanos), γάμπανος (gámpanos), from Latin campāna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qab.baːn/
• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

قَبَّان • (qabbān) m

1. stilyard [from the later 11^th century]

   Synonym: قَرَسْطُون (qarasṭūn)

Declension

Declension of noun قَبَّان (qabbān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَبَّان qabbān	الْقَبَّان al-qabbān	قَبَّان qabbān
Nominative	قَبَّانٌ qabbānun	الْقَبَّانُ al-qabbānu	قَبَّانُ qabbānu
Accusative	قَبَّانًا qabbānan	الْقَبَّانَ al-qabbāna	قَبَّانَ qabbāna
Genitive	قَبَّانٍ qabbānin	الْقَبَّانِ al-qabbāni	قَبَّانِ qabbāni

Derived terms

• قَبَّنَ (qabbana, “to weigh with a steelyard”)

Descendants

• → Amharic: ቀባን (ḳäbban)

References

• Abattouy, Mohammed (2011) “A New Arabic Text of Mechanics: Sinan ibn Thabit on the Theory of Simple Machines”, in Muslim Heritage‎^[1]
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 416–417 Nr. 1424
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قبان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 395b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قبان”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[4] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 670a
• Martinez, A. P. (1992) “The Third Portion of the History of Ğāzān Xān in Rašīdu’d-Dīn’s Taʼrīx-e Mobārak-e Ğāzānī. [Part two]”, in Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, volume 8, Otto Harrassowitz, published 1994, →ISBN, page 139 fn. 54, claiming an unrealistic development from Aeolic Greek καπᾱ́νᾱ (kapā́nā), καπᾱ́νη (kapā́nē, literally “cross-piece of a harness as well as a chariot”) corresponding to classical ἀπήνη (apḗnē, “mule-drawn chariot”)
• Wiedemann, Eilhard (1906) Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. VI. Zur Mechanik und Technik bei den Arabern (Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medizinischen Sozietät; 38)‎^[5] (in German), Erlangen: Junge & Sohn, published 1907, pages 7–8