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Arabic
Etymology
A pre-Mamluk Turkic borrowing, from a cognate of Ottoman Turkish طوپوز (topuz, “iron mace”). The name of a pin may have additional connection to the root د ب ب (d b b) related to crawling, pushing in, compare also دَرْبَسَ (darbasa, “to shut”), and possibly, too, the name stuck owing to دِبْس (dibs, “molasses”).
Pronunciation
Noun
دَبُّوس • (dabbūs) m (plural دَبَابِيس (dabābīs))
- pin
- (before that) peg, plug, rod, cudgel, any oblong instrument driven into or onto something
- (figurative) penis
- Synonyms: قَضِيب (qaḍīb), ذَكَر (ḏakar), زُبّ (zubb), أَيْر (ʔayr), آلَة (ʔāla)
- (originally now historical) iron mace
- (regional) government informant
Declension
Declension of noun دَبُّوس (dabbūs)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 450, guesses as “probable” instead a Middle Iranian compound of Proto-Iranian *dwáH (“two”) and Proto-Iranian *baHjúš (“arm”) because of it being a two-handed weapon; the same compound would have engendered دَبَّاس (dabbās), دِبَاسَاء (dibāsāʔ, “praying mantis”) because of that animal’s forelegs.
- Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 173b, as later.
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دبوس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 423a
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “دبوس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 6a
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “دبوس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 667a
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “دبوس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 840a
- Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 117
- Procházka, Stephan (2004) “The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon”, in Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic, Routledge, →ISBN, page 199
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “دبوس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 353b
- Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 306 Nr. 39
Hijazi Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic دَبُّوس (dabbūs).
Pronunciation
Noun
دبوس • (dabbūs) m (plural دَبَابِيس (dabābīs))
- pin
- (slang) snitch