إبزيم
Arabic
Alternative forms
- إِبْزَام (ʔibzām), إِبْزِين (ʔibzīn)
Etymology
Superficially of the root ب ز م (b-z-m), however a borrowing of Persian ابزین (abzin), اوزین (avzin, “ring; buckle”), which is maybe a suffixation of the same word as بز (baz, “high ground, hill, summit of a mountain”), and easily بَزِيم (bazīm, “a shoot of a plant or frond used to bind vegetable bundles and the bundle itself”), وَزِيم (wazīm, “bundle of vegetables”) are all the same word rather via a meaning of binding or surrounding, then meanings بَزَمَ (bazama, “to take with two fingers”) denominal. Also in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic אבזיינא (ʾaḇzyēnā), אפזיינא (ʾap̄zyēnā, “buckle”), בזיינא (bazyēnā, “buckle, clasp”), Jewish Neo-Aramaic אבזונא (ʾaḇzūnā), Northern Kurdish avzûm, avzûn (“buckle”), Central Kurdish ئاوزوونە (awzûne), ئاوزینە (awzîne, “buckle”), Georgian აბზინდა (abzinda, “buckle”), and in the Armenian invented language Ṙuštuni աբզէդոն (abzēdon, “girdle”). The sound change of trailing ـنٌ (-nun) to ـمٌ (-mun) having happened in Arabic is evidenced by مِيجَم (mījam, “fuller’s beetle”), see its forms on its page.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔib.ziːm/
Noun
إِبْزِيم • (ʔibzīm) m (plural إِبْزِيمَات (ʔibzīmāt) or أَبَازِيم (ʔabāzīm))
Declension
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | إِبْزِيم ʔibzīm |
الْإِبْزِيم al-ʔibzīm |
إِبْزِيم ʔibzīm |
| Nominative | إِبْزِيمٌ ʔibzīmun |
الْإِبْزِيمُ al-ʔibzīmu |
إِبْزِيمُ ʔibzīmu |
| Accusative | إِبْزِيمًا ʔibzīman |
الْإِبْزِيمَ al-ʔibzīma |
إِبْزِيمَ ʔibzīma |
| Genitive | إِبْزِيمٍ ʔibzīmin |
الْإِبْزِيمِ al-ʔibzīmi |
إِبْزِيمِ ʔibzīmi |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | إِبْزِيمَيْن ʔibzīmayn |
الْإِبْزِيمَيْن al-ʔibzīmayn |
إِبْزِيمَيْ ʔibzīmay |
| Nominative | إِبْزِيمَانِ ʔibzīmāni |
الْإِبْزِيمَانِ al-ʔibzīmāni |
إِبْزِيمَا ʔibzīmā |
| Accusative | إِبْزِيمَيْنِ ʔibzīmayni |
الْإِبْزِيمَيْنِ al-ʔibzīmayni |
إِبْزِيمَيْ ʔibzīmay |
| Genitive | إِبْزِيمَيْنِ ʔibzīmayni |
الْإِبْزِيمَيْنِ al-ʔibzīmayni |
إِبْزِيمَيْ ʔibzīmay |
| Plural | sound feminine plural; basic broken plural diptote | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | إِبْزِيمَات; أَبَازِيم ʔibzīmāt; ʔabāzīm |
الْإِبْزِيمَات; الْأَبَازِيم al-ʔibzīmāt; al-ʔabāzīm |
إِبْزِيمَات; أَبَازِيم ʔibzīmāt; ʔabāzīm |
| Nominative | إِبْزِيمَاتٌ; أَبَازِيمُ ʔibzīmātun; ʔabāzīmu |
الْإِبْزِيمَاتُ; الْأَبَازِيمُ al-ʔibzīmātu; al-ʔabāzīmu |
إِبْزِيمَاتُ; أَبَازِيمُ ʔibzīmātu; ʔabāzīmu |
| Accusative | إِبْزِيمَاتٍ; أَبَازِيمَ ʔibzīmātin; ʔabāzīma |
الْإِبْزِيمَاتِ; الْأَبَازِيمَ al-ʔibzīmāti; al-ʔabāzīma |
إِبْزِيمَاتِ; أَبَازِيمَ ʔibzīmāti; ʔabāzīma |
| Genitive | إِبْزِيمَاتٍ; أَبَازِيمَ ʔibzīmātin; ʔabāzīma |
الْإِبْزِيمَاتِ; الْأَبَازِيمِ al-ʔibzīmāti; al-ʔabāzīmi |
إِبْزِيمَاتِ; أَبَازِيمِ ʔibzīmāti; ʔabāzīmi |
References
- “ˀbzyynˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Landberg, Carlo, editor (1901) Études sur les dialectes de l'Arabie méridionale. Prémier volume. Ḥaḍramoût (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 262
- Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Freiherr von (1854) Das Pferd bei den Arabern (in German), Wien: Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, page 90 in a Sonderdruck equalling 198 of volume 7 of the Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Russell, James R. (2012), “Armenian secret and invented languages and argots”, in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana, volume 8, issue 3, page 653 of 602–684
- Sokoloff, Michael (2002), “אבזיינא”, in A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 74b