کبین
Brahui
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Proto-Dravidian *cumV- (“to carry on head”).[1] Cognate with Tamil சும (cuma, “to bear, carry”).[2]
McAlpin, taking the "serious" meaning as primary, relates it to Middle Elamite [script needed] (su-um-mu-h /summuh/, “I committed myself”), New Elamite [script needed] (su-um-mu-un /summun/, “offering obligation”).[3] However, in earlier work, he connected it to Elamite [script needed] (su-man-ra, “one who makes others work (hard)”), which is more semantically plausible.[4]
Adjective
[edit]کُبین (kuben)
- heavy
- difficult
- weighty, serious
- serious-minded, sedate, dignified
- dear, expensive
- precious
- dirty
- haunted
Derived terms
[edit]- کُبینِی (kubenī, “crisis, inflation”)
References
[edit]- ^ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
- ^ Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “2677”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- ^ McAlpin, David (2022) “*ḱum”, in “Modern colloquial eastern Elamite”, in Al-Burz, volume 14, number 1, pages 64–123
- ^ McAlpin, David (2015) “Brahui and the Zagrosian Hypothesis”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society,[1], volume 135, number 3, pages 551–586
Further reading
[edit]- Bray, Denys (1934) “kubēn”, in The Brahui Language[2], Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 171
- Ali, Liaquat, Kobayashi, Masato (2024) “kuben”, in Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales[3], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 712