See also: دنت and ذنب

Arabic edit

Adjective edit

دِنَّب (dinnab) (feminine دِنَّبَة (dinnaba) or دِنَابَة (dināba))

  1. short, small, dwarf

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Moroccan Arabic edit

Root
د ن ب
1 term

Etymology 1 edit

From Arabic ذَنْب (ḏanb).

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Noun edit

دنب (danbm (plural دنوب (dnūb))

  1. sin
    Synonyms: خطية (ḵaṭiyya), سيئة (sayyiʔa), معصية (maʕṣya, muʕṣya)

Etymology 2 edit

From Arabic ذَنَبَ (ḏanaba).

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Verb edit

دنب (dnab) I (non-past يدنب (yidnab))

  1. to sin
    Synonym: خطى (ḵṭā)

Persian edit

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Etymology edit

From Middle Persian dwm(b') (/⁠dum(b)⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewmbʰ- (penis, tail, rod).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬨𐬀 (duma, penis), Kurdish, Northern Kurdish dûv (tail), Baluchi دمب (domb), Sarikoli [script needed] (δüm), Wakhi [script needed] (dümbá), Pashto لم (lëm, tail of sheep), Ossetian дымӕг (dymæg), Sogdian dwnp'k (δum/nb/pe), Sanskrit दुम्बक (dumbaka, the thick-tailed sheep).

Akin to Old Armenian դմակ (dmak, fat tail of sheep), Georgian დუმაკი (dumaḳi), დუმა (duma), Iranian borrowings. Perhaps also cognate with Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (top, summit) (whence English top), as well as German Zumpf (penis).

For the sense development compare Old Armenian ձետ (jet).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? dunb
Dari reading? dunb
Iranian reading? donb
Tajik reading? dunb

Noun edit

دُنْب (donb)

  1. tail

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