ثعبان

See also: تعبان

Arabic

Root
ث ع ب (ṯ-ʕ-b)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θuʕ.baːn/
• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

ثُعْبَان • (ṯuʕbān) m or f (plural ثَعَابِين (ṯaʕābīn))

1. snake
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:32:

     فَأَلْقَى عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُبِينٌ

     fa-ʔalqā ʕaṣāhu fa-ʔiḏā hiya ṯuʕbānun mubīnun

     Then he flung down his staff and it became a bare serpent

2. (astronomy) (normally الثُعْبَان (aṯ-ṯuʕbān)) Alpha Draconis

Declension

Declension of noun ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	ثُعْبَان ṯuʕbān	الثُّعْبَان aṯ-ṯuʕbān	ثُعْبَان ṯuʕbān
Nominative	ثُعْبَانٌ ṯuʕbānun	الثُّعْبَانُ aṯ-ṯuʕbānu	ثُعْبَانُ ṯuʕbānu
Accusative	ثُعْبَانًا ṯuʕbānan	الثُّعْبَانَ aṯ-ṯuʕbāna	ثُعْبَانَ ṯuʕbāna
Genitive	ثُعْبَانٍ ṯuʕbānin	الثُّعْبَانِ aṯ-ṯuʕbāni	ثُعْبَانِ ṯuʕbāni
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	ثُعْبَانَيْن ṯuʕbānayn	الثُّعْبَانَيْن aṯ-ṯuʕbānayn	ثُعْبَانَيْ ṯuʕbānay
Nominative	ثُعْبَانَانِ ṯuʕbānāni	الثُّعْبَانَانِ aṯ-ṯuʕbānāni	ثُعْبَانَا ṯuʕbānā
Accusative	ثُعْبَانَيْنِ ṯuʕbānayni	الثُّعْبَانَيْنِ aṯ-ṯuʕbānayni	ثُعْبَانَيْ ṯuʕbānay
Genitive	ثُعْبَانَيْنِ ṯuʕbānayni	الثُّعْبَانَيْنِ aṯ-ṯuʕbānayni	ثُعْبَانَيْ ṯuʕbānay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	ثَعَابِين ṯaʕābīn	الثَّعَابِين aṯ-ṯaʕābīn	ثَعَابِين ṯaʕābīn
Nominative	ثَعَابِينُ ṯaʕābīnu	الثَّعَابِينُ aṯ-ṯaʕābīnu	ثَعَابِينُ ṯaʕābīnu
Accusative	ثَعَابِينَ ṯaʕābīna	الثَّعَابِينَ aṯ-ṯaʕābīna	ثَعَابِينَ ṯaʕābīna
Genitive	ثَعَابِينَ ṯaʕābīna	الثَّعَابِينِ aṯ-ṯaʕābīni	ثَعَابِينِ ṯaʕābīni

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ث ع ب
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuʕ.baːn/, /θuʕ.baːn/

Noun

ثُعْبَان • (tuʕbān or ṯuʕbān) m (plural ثَعابين (taʕābīn))

1. snake

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• սուպան (suban) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān, “snake”).

Noun

ثعبان • (suʿban) (plural ثعابین)

1. species of large snake said to hunt rats
2. fabulous serpent of enormous size, dragon

   Synonyms: (dragon) اژدها (ejdeha), تنین (tinin), غول (ğul)

Descendants

• Turkish: suban

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “suban”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4342
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ثعبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 425
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Draco”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 432
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ثعبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1523
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ثعبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 624