دنب

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See also: دنت and ذنب

Arabic

Adjective

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

  1. short, small, dwarf

Declension

Moroccan Arabic

Root
د ن ب
1 term

Etymology 1

From Arabic ذَنْب (ḏanb).

Pronunciation

Noun

دنب (danbm (plural دنوب (dnūb))

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

Etymology 2

From Arabic ذَنَبَ (ḏanaba).

Pronunciation

Verb

دنب (dnab) I (non-past يدنب (yidnab))

  1. to sin
    Synonym: خطى (ḵṭā)

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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 (δüm), Wakhi (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

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

Noun

دُنْب (donb)

  1. tail

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