شبنم

Azerbaijani

Noun

شبنم

1. Arabic spelling of şəbnəm

Proper noun

شبنم

1. Arabic spelling of Şəbnəm

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).

Noun

شَبْنَم (transliteration needed)

1. dew

Descendants

• Uyghur: شەبنەم (shebnem)
• Uzbek: shabnam

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).

Noun

شَبْنَم • (şebnem)

1. dew

Descendants

• Turkish: şebnem

Proper noun

شَبْنَم • (Şebnem)

1. a female given name, Şebnem, Shebnem, or Shabnam

Descendants

• Turkish: Şebnem

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).

Noun

شَبْنَم • (šabnám) m

1. dew

Persian

Etymology

From شب (šab, “night”) +‎ نم (nam, “moisture, humidity”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃaβ.ˈnam]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäb.nǽm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäb.nǽm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃäb.nǽm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃäb.nǽm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæb.nǽm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäb.nǽm]

Readings
Classical reading?	šaḇnam
Dari reading?	šabnam
Iranian reading?	šabnam
Tajik reading?	šabnam

Noun

Dari	شبنم
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шабнам

شبنم • (šabnam) (plural شبنم‌ها)

1. dew

   Synonyms: بژم (bažm), ژاله (žâle)

Alternative forms

• شونم (šownam) (dialectal)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: şəbnəm
• → Bengali: শবনম (śobonom)
• → Chagatai: شَبْنَم
  • Uyghur: شەبنەم (shebnem)
  • Uzbek: shabnam
• → Gujarati: શબનમ (śabnam)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शबनम (śabnam)

  Urdu: شَبْنَم (śabnam)

• → Ottoman Turkish: شَبْنَم (şebnem)
  • Turkish: şebnem
• → Pashto: شَبْنَم (šabnám)
• → Punjabi:
  • Shahmukhi script: شَبْنَم (śabnam)
• → Sindhi: شَبِنَمِ (śabinami)

Proper noun

Dari	شبنم
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Шабнам

شبنم • (šabnam)

1. a female given name, Shabnam

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: Şəbnəm
• → Bengali: শবনম (śobonom)
• → Gujarati: શબનમ (śabnam)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शबनम (śabnam)

  Urdu: شَبْنَم (śabnam)

• → Ottoman Turkish: شَبْنَم (Şebnem)
  • Turkish: Şebnem

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شبنم (šabnam).

Noun

شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ਬਨਮ)

1. dew

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “شبنم”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شبنم (šabnam).

Noun

شَبِنَمِ • (śabinami) f (Devanagari शबिनमि)

1. dew

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “شَبِنَمِ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَبْنَم (šabnam). By surface analysis, شَب (śab, “night”) +‎ نَم (nam, “moisture”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃəb.nəm/
• Rhymes: -əm

Proper noun

شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Hindi spelling शबनम)

1. a female given name, Shabnam, from Persian

Declension

Declension of شبنم

	singular	plural
direct	شَبْنَم (śabnam)	شَبْنَمیں (śabnamẽ)
oblique	شَبْنَم (śabnam)	شَبْنَموں (śabnamõ)
vocative	شَبْنَم (śabnam)	شَبْنَمو (śabnamo)

Derived terms

• (Diminutives) شَبّو (śabbo)

Noun

شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Hindi spelling शबनम)

1. dew

   Synonyms: اوس (os), ژالَہ (źāla)

Declension

Declension of شبنم

	singular	plural
direct	شَبْنَم (śabnam)	شَبْنَمیں (śabnamẽ)
oblique	شَبْنَم (śabnam)	شَبْنَموں (śabnamõ)
vocative	شَبْنَم (śabnam)	شَبْنَمو (śabnamo)

Further reading

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شبنم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 813
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شبنم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 721
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شبنم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 400
• “شبنم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “شبنم”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• “شبنم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.