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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