ل ب ن

Arabic

Etymology

Cognate with Hebrew ל־ב־ן (l-b-n). Compare Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”).

Root

ل ب ن • (l-b-n)

1. related to whiteness such as of frankincense or milk

Derived terms

• Form I: لَبَنَ (labana, “to eat much; to strike, to beat; to suck milk”)
  • Verbal noun: لَبْن (labn)
  • Active participle: لَابِن (lābin)
  • Passive participle: مَلْبُون (malbūn)
• Form I: لَبِنَ (labina, “to abound in milk, to have much milk; to be affected by cervical pain”)
  • Verbal noun: لَبَن (laban)
  • Active participle: لَابِن (lābin)
• Form IV: أَلْبَنَ (ʔalbana, “to generate much milk”)
  • Verbal noun: إِلْبَان (ʔilbān)
  • Active participle: مُلْبِن (mulbin)
• Form V: تَلَبَّنَ (talabbana, “to tarry, to linger”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَبُّن (talabbun)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَبِّن (mutalabbin)
• Form VIII: اِلْتَبَنَ (iltabana, “to suck milk”)
  • Verbal noun: اِلْتِبَان (iltibān)
  • Active participle: مُلْتَبِن (multabin)
  • Passive participle: مُلْتَبَن (multaban)
• Form X: اِسْتَلْبَنَ (istalbana, “to desire milk from”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِلْبَان (istilbān)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَلْبِن (mustalbin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَلْبَن (mustalban)

• لَبَن (laban, “milk”)
• لَبَان (labān, “breast”)
• لِبَان (libān, “suckling, lactation”)
• لَبَان (labān, “olibanum; gum”)
• أَلْبَان (ʔalbān, “dairy”)
• لِبَانَة (libāna, “dairy”)
• لُبَانَة (lubāna, “desideratum; emprise, undertaking”)
• لَبِن (labin) and لَبُون (labūn, “giving milk, lactating”)
• لُبْنَى (lubnā, “Styrax officinalis”)
• مِلْبَن (milban, “milk vessel”)
• مِلْبَنَة (milbana, “spoonful”)
• لبنة (libna, labna, “lebna (milk product)”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ل ب ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 83–84