تنبل

See also: بنتل‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Persian تنبل‎ (tanbal).

Adjective

تَنْبَل • (tanbal) (masculine plural تَنَابِلَة‎ (tanābila))

  1. lazy
Declension

Verb

تَنْبَلَ • (tanbala) Iq, non-past يُتَنْبِلُ‎‎ (yutanbilu)

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Conjugation

Etymology 2

From the root ن ب ل‎ (n-b-l).

Verb

تَنَبَّلَ • (tanabbala) V, non-past يَتَنَبَّلُ‎‎ (yatanabbalu)

  1. to be noble, to be of high rank or talent, to excel
    • a. 525, Aš-Šanfara, أقيموا بني أمي صدور مطيكم (first line)‎:
      ‏وَلَيْلَةِ نَحْسٍ يَصْطَلِيَ القَوْسَ رَبُّهَا … وَأَقْطُعَهُ ٱللَّاتِي بِهَا يَتَنَبَّلُ
      دَعَسْتُ عَلَى غَطَشٍ وَبَغْشٍ وَصُحْبَتِي … سُعَارٌ وَإِرْزِيزٌ وَوَجْرٌ وَأَفْكُلُ
      ‎
      wa-laylati naḥsin yaṣṭaliya l-qawsa rabbu-hā … wa-ʔaqṭuʕa-hū l-lātī bi-hā yatanabbalu
      daʕastu ʕalā ḡaṭašin wabaḡšin wa-ṣuḥbatī … suʕārun wa-ʔirzīzun wa-wajrun wa-ʔafkulu
      And the ill-fated night when the master warmed up his bow, … and his arrowtips, in the handling of which he had trow
      I trod upon darkness and rain-shower and my following … was the heat of night and snowy hail and timid gulps and shivering
Conjugation

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian تنبل‎ (tanbal).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tɛm.ˈbɛl]
  • (dialectal) IPA(key): [dɛm.ˈbɛl]

Adjective

تنبل • (tembel)

  1. lazy

Descendants

  • Turkish: tembel
  • → Albanian: dembel
  • → Armenian: թէմպէլ (tʿēmpēl)
  • → Bulgarian: дембе́л (dembél)
  • → Greek: τεμπέλης (tempélis)
  • → Hebrew: טֶמְבֶּל‎ (témbel)
  • → Laz: თემბელი (tembeli)
  • → Macedonian: дембел (dembel)
  • → Romanian: tembel
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: дѐмбел
    Latin script: dèmbel

Persian

Etymology

According to Asatrian, sound-symbolic like Ossetian тымбыл (tymbyl, “round”) and Armenian թմբլիկ (tʿmblik, “plump”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

تنبل • (tanbal) (comparative تنبل‌تَر‎ (tanbal-tar), superlative تنبل‌تَرین‎ (tanbal-tarin))

  1. lazy
  2. sluggish

Inflection

    Predicative forms of تنبل (tanbal)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)
تنبلم‎
(tanbalam)
تنبلیم‎
(tanbalim)
2nd person
(“you are”)
تنبلی‎
(tanbali)
تنبلید‎
(tanbalid)
تنبلین‎ △
(tanbalin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)
تنبل است‎
(tanbal ast)
تنبله‎ △
(tanbale)
تنبلند‎
(tanbaland)
تنبلن‎ △
(tanbalan)
△ Colloquial.

Descendants

References

  • Asatrian, Garnik S. (2011) A Comparative Vocabulary of Central Iranian Dialects‎ (in Persian and English), Tehran: Safir Ardehal Publications, pages 760–761
  • Asatrjan, Garnik (2019), “Образования с суффиксальным элементом -l- в новоиранском [Formations with the suffixal element -l- in New Iranian]”, in Caucaso-Caspica IV: Research Papers from the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAU (in Russian), Yerevan: Russian-Armenian University, page 195 of 190–205

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Persian تنبل‎ (tanbal).

Adjective

تنبل • (tanbal) (common plural تنابل‎ (tanābel))

  1. lazy
    Synonym: كسلان‎ (kaslān)

See also

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