ⲉⲃⲓⲏⲛ

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Coptic

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Etymology

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From Demotic A14n-2ybꜣ (ꜣbyn, poor man). Ultimately borrowed from Canaanite *ʾabyōn-,[1] whence also Hebrew אֶבְיוֹן (ʾeḇyōn, poor, needy). Related to Ugaritic 𐎀𐎁𐎊𐎐 (ảbyn /⁠ʾabyānu⁠/, poor, impoverished).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ⲉⲃⲓⲏⲛ (ebiēnm or f

  1. (Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic, Fayyumic) a poor, wretched, miserable person

Adjective

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ⲉⲃⲓⲏⲛ (ebiēn)

  1. (Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic, Fayyumic) miserable, wretched

References

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  1. ^ Wilson-Wright, Aren M., Huehnergard, John (2021) “How to Kill a Dragon in Northwest Semitic: Three Linguistic Observations regarding Ugaritic ltn and Hebrew liwyātān”, in Vetus Testamentum, volume 72, number 1, Brill, →DOI:Normally, the suffix *-ān becomes -ôn in Biblical Hebrew with the operation of the Canaanite shift (e.g., *ʔabyān- > ʔebyôn “poor”).
  2. ^ Bordreuil, Pierre, Pardee, Dennis (2009) A Manual of Ugaritic, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 293:ʾABYN adjective 'destitute, poor' /ʾabyānu/
  • Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago[1], volume ꜣ (02.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 18
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32
  • Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 53
  • ꜣbjn (lemma ID d73)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[3], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 38