دبوس
Arabic edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
A pre-Mamluk Turkic borrowing, from a cognate of Ottoman Turkish طوپوز (topuz, “iron mace”). The name of a pin may have additional connection to the root د ب ب (d-b-b) related to crawling, pushing in, compare also دَرْبَسَ (darbasa, “to shut”), and possibly, too, the name stuck owing to دِبْس (dibs, “molasses”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
دَبُّوس • (dabbūs) m (plural دَبَابِيس (dabābīs))
- pin
- (before that) peg, plug, rod, cudgel, any oblong instrument driven into or onto something
- (figurative) penis
- (originally now historical) iron mace
Declension edit
Declension of noun دَبُّوس (dabbūs)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | دَبُّوس dabbūs |
الدَّبُّوس ad-dabbūs |
دَبُّوس dabbūs |
| Nominative | دَبُّوسٌ dabbūsun |
الدَّبُّوسُ ad-dabbūsu |
دَبُّوسُ dabbūsu |
| Accusative | دَبُّوسًا dabbūsan |
الدَّبُّوسَ ad-dabbūsa |
دَبُّوسَ dabbūsa |
| Genitive | دَبُّوسٍ dabbūsin |
الدَّبُّوسِ ad-dabbūsi |
دَبُّوسِ dabbūsi |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | دَبُّوسَيْن dabbūsayn |
الدَّبُّوسَيْن ad-dabbūsayn |
دَبُّوسَيْ dabbūsay |
| Nominative | دَبُّوسَانِ dabbūsāni |
الدَّبُّوسَانِ ad-dabbūsāni |
دَبُّوسَا dabbūsā |
| Accusative | دَبُّوسَيْنِ dabbūsayni |
الدَّبُّوسَيْنِ ad-dabbūsayni |
دَبُّوسَيْ dabbūsay |
| Genitive | دَبُّوسَيْنِ dabbūsayni |
الدَّبُّوسَيْنِ ad-dabbūsayni |
دَبُّوسَيْ dabbūsay |
| Plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | دَبَابِيس dabābīs |
الدَّبَابِيس ad-dabābīs |
دَبَابِيس dabābīs |
| Nominative | دَبَابِيسُ dabābīsu |
الدَّبَابِيسُ ad-dabābīsu |
دَبَابِيسُ dabābīsu |
| Accusative | دَبَابِيسَ dabābīsa |
الدَّبَابِيسَ ad-dabābīsa |
دَبَابِيسَ dabābīsa |
| Genitive | دَبَابِيسَ dabābīsa |
الدَّبَابِيسِ ad-dabābīsi |
دَبَابِيسِ dabābīsi |
Derived terms edit
- دَبَّاسَة (dabbāsa, “stapler”)
- دَبَّسَ (dabbasa, verb)
- دَبُّوسِيّ (dabbūsiyy, adjective)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 450, guesses as “probable” instead a Middle Iranian compound of Proto-Iranian *dwáH (“two”) and Proto-Iranian *baHjúš (“arm”) because of it being a two-handed weapon; the same compound would have engendered دَبَّاس (dabbās), دِبَاسَاء (dibāsāʔ, “praying mantis”) because of that animal’s forelegs.
- Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 173b, as later.
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دبوس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 423a
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “دبوس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 6a
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “دبوس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[4] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 667a
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “دبوس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[5], London: Williams & Norgate, page 840a
- Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern[6], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 117
- Procházka, Stephan (2004) “The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon”, in Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic[7], Routledge, →ISBN, page 199
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- Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[9] (in German), volume 51, page 306 Nr. 39