طنب

Arabic

Etymology

Unknown. Maybe extended from طُنّ (ṭunn, bundle of reeds), see there for other comparisons, maybe related with طُنُف (ṭunuf), طُنْف (ṭunf), طَنَف (ṭanaf), طَنْف (ṭanf, overhang of a mountain or a building, cornice, eaves etc.), which must be judged by the meanings of Ge'ez ጥንፍ (ṭənf, prominence; cornice; cross-beam, joint between pillars etc.).

Noun

طَنَب (ṭanab) m

  1. (Yemen) Cordia africana
    Hypernym: سِبِسْتَان (sibistān)

Declension

Noun

طُنُب or طُنْب (ṭunub or ṭunb) m (plural أَطْنَاب (ʔaṭnāb) or طِنَبَة (ṭinaba)) (archaic)

  1. rope, line
    Synonyms: حَبْل (ḥabl), مَرَسَة (marasa), رِبَاط (ribāṭ), قَلْس (qals), أَشْل (ʔašl), سَبَب (sabab)
  2. artery or tendon

Declension

Derived terms

  • أَطْنَبَ (ʔaṭnaba, to exceed the bounds, to have a long course)

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: tənab
  • Classical Syriac: ܛܘܢܒܐ (ṭunbā)
  • Ottoman Turkish: طنب (tunb, tunüb), طنف (tunüf, tünef, tenef), تنف (tunüf, tünef, tenef), طناب (tenab)
    • Turkish: tenef (dialectal)
    • Bulgarian: тенеп (tenep), тенеф (tenef)
    • Northern Kurdish: tenef, tenab
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: тѐнеф, тѐнеп
      Latin script: tènef, tènep
  • Urdu: طنب (tunub)

Verb

طَنِبَ (ṭaniba) I, non-past يَطْنَبُ‎ (yaṭnabu) (obsolete)

  1. to be curved, crooked, hurled
  2. to have long and weak feet
  3. to have a long back (said of a horse)

Conjugation

Verb

طَنَّبَ (ṭannaba) II, non-past يُطَنِّبُ‎ (yuṭannibu) (archaic)

  1. to bind or tie with a rope
  2. to stay, to abide in [+ بِِ (object) = in]
  3. to be exceedingly diligent, to be overly zealous
  4. to howl (said of a wolf)

Conjugation

References

  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 825
  • Delitzsch, Franz; Keil, Carl Friedrich (1873) Biblischer Commentar über das Alte Testament. Vierter Theil. Poetische Bücher. Dritter Band: Das Salomonische Spruchbuch (in German), Erste edition, Leipzig: Dörffling und Franke, page 127
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), طنب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 73b
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), طنب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 646

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • طنف (tunüf, tünef, tenef), تنف (tunüf, tünef, tenef), طناب (tenab) (Vulgar Turkish)

Etymology

From Arabic طُنُب (ṭunub).

Noun

طنب (tunb, tunüb) (plural اطناب (etnab))

  1. rope, line, strap
    Synonyms: ایپ (ip), حلات / حلاط (halat), قنب (kınnep, kınnap)
  2. tendon
    Synonyms: سڭیر (siñir), عصبة (asaba), كرش (kiriş)
  3. sunbeam
    Synonyms: تیغ (tiğ), پرتو (pertev), شعاع (şua)

Descendants

  • Turkish: tenef (dialectal)
  • Bulgarian: тенеп (tenep), тенеф (tenef)
  • Northern Kurdish: tenef, tenab
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐнеф, тѐнеп
    Latin script: tènef, tènep

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), funis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 632
  • Miklosich, Franz (1884) Die türkischen Elemente in den südost- und osteuropäischen Sprachen (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe) (in German), volume 35, Wien: In Commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), طنب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, pages 1246b–1247a
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