عنکبوت

See also: عنكبوت

Persian

عنکبوت

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَنْكَبُوت (ʕankabūt). Displaced native جولا (jôlâ) in Iranian Persian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔan.ka.ˈβuːt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.búːt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.búːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.búːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.bút̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæɲ.kʰʲæ.búːt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.bɵ́t̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	ankaḇūt
Dari reading?	ankabūt
Iranian reading?	ankabut
Tajik reading?	ankabüt

Noun

Dari	جولا
Iranian Persian	عنکبوت
Tajik	анкабӯт, тортанак

عَنْکَبوت • (ankabut) (plural عنکبوت‌ها (ankabut-hâ) or عناکب ('anâkeb) or عنکبوتان (ankabutân))

1. spider

   Synonyms: (Dari) جولَا (jōlā), تارْتَنَک (târtanak)

   • late 1400s, Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī, فاتحة الشباب‎^[1]:

     شد دو سه تاری که عنکبوت تنیدش
     بر در آن غار پرده دار محمد

     šud du si tārē ki ankabūt tanīd-aš
     bar dar-i ān ğār parda dār-i muhammad

     The two or three threads that the spider wove for him
     On the door of the cave, were the veil of Muhammad.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• عنکبوتی (ankabuti, “spiderlike; arachnid”)
• مرد عنکبوتی (mard-e ankabuti)