ⲟⲃⲛ

Coptic

Alternative forms

• ⲟⲃⲉⲛ (oben), ⲟⲃⲛⲉ (obne), ⲁⲃⲉⲛ (aben) — Sahidic
• ⲱⲃⲉⲛ (ōben) — Bohairic

Etymology

From Demotic ꜣbn (“alum”), from Egyptian (jbnw, “alum”).

Noun

ⲟⲃⲛ • (obn) m

1. (Sahidic) alum

References

• Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 254
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 120
• TLA lemma no. C2738 (ⲟⲃⲛ), in: Coptic Dictionary Online, ed. by the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA), [2]