زبون

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Aramaic זָבוֹנָא / ܙܳܒܘܿܢܳܐ (zāḇōnā, buyer). Its root is cognate to Arabic ز م ل (z-m-l), و ز ن (w-z-n).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /za.buːn/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

زَبُون (zabūnm (plural زَبَائِن (zabāʔin) or زُبَنَاء (zubanāʔ))

  1. customer, client

Declension[edit]

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • zbwn2”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زبون”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 580
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 189
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زبون”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 224
  • Růžička, Rudolf (1909) “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[3] (in German), volume VI, number 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, page 93
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “زبون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 317

Hijazi Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic زَبُون (zabūn).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

زبون (zabūnm (plural زباين (zabāyin), feminine زبونة (zabūna))

  1. customer, client

Persian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? zaḇūn
Dari reading? zabūn
Iranian reading? zabun
Tajik reading? zabun

Adjective[edit]

زبون (zabun)

  1. humbled, vanquished, helpless, abject
    • c. 1030, Fakhr al-Dīn Asʿad Gurgānī, ويس و رامين [Vīs u Rāmīn]‎[5]:
      زنان گفتار مردان راست دارند
      به گفت خوش تن ایشان را سپارند
      زن ارچه زیرک و هشیار باشد
      زبون مرد خوش گفتار باشد
      zanān guftār-i mardān rāst dārand
      ba guft-i xwaš tan-i ēšān rā sipārand
      zan arči zīrak u hušyār bāšad
      zabūn-i mard-i xwaš guftār bāšad
      Women trust in the things that men say,
      They give up their bodies for a sweet word.
      Even if a woman is smart and astute,
      She is helpless before a man who speaks well.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. lowly, insignificant
  3. despicable, vile
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Readings
Iranian reading? zabun

Noun[edit]

زبون (zabun)

  1. Colloquial-un form of زبان (zabân).

South Levantine Arabic[edit]

Root
ز ب ن
1 term

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic زَبُون (zabūn).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

زبون (zbūnm (plural زباين (zabāyen), feminine زبونة (zbūne))

  1. customer, client

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