ذنب

Of the root ذ ن ب (ḏ-n-b). The noun “tail” is reconstructible as Proto-Semitic *ḏanab-.

• IPA^(key): /ða.nab/

ذَنَب • (ḏanab) m (plural أَذْنَاب (ʔaḏnāb))

1. tail, end

   Synonym: ذَيْل (ḏayl)

2. adherent, follower, henchman

• ذَنَب الدَّجَاجَة (ḏanab ad-dajāja, “Deneb”)

• Maltese: denb
• → Middle Armenian: զանապ (zanap)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ذنب (zeneb)
  • Turkish: zeneb
• → Persian: ذنب (zanab)

• IPA^(key): /ða.na.ba/

ذَنَبَ • (ḏanaba) I (non-past يَذْنِبُ (yaḏnibu) or يَذْنُبُ (yaḏnubu), verbal noun ذَنْب (ḏanb))

1. to follow

• IPA^(key): /ðan.na.ba/

ذَنَّبَ • (ḏannaba) II (non-past يُذَنِّبُ (yuḏannibu), verbal noun تَذْنِيب (taḏnīb))

1. to furnish with a tail, to provide a start to

• IPA^(key): /ðanb/

ذَنْب • (ḏanb) m (plural ذُنُوب (ḏunūb))

1. (Islam, law) crime, offense, sin

   Synonyms: خَطِيئَة (ḵaṭīʔa), إِثْم (ʔiṯm)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 3:193:

     رَبَّنَا فَٱغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا وَكَفِّرْ عَنَّا سَيِّئَاتِنَا وَتَوَفَّنَا مَعَ الْأَبْرَارِ

     rabbanā faḡfir lanā ḏunūbanā wakaffir ʕannā sayyiʔātinā watawaffanā maʕa l-ʔabrāri

     Our Lord! Lo! we have heard a crier calling unto Faith: "Believe ye in your Lord!" So we believed. Our Lord! Therefor forgive us our sins, and remit from us our evil deeds, and make us die the death of the righteous.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 81:8-9:

     وَإِذَا ٱلۡمَوۡءُودَةُ سُئِلَتۡ ۝ بِأَيِّ ذَنۢبࣲ قُتِلَتۡ ۝

     And when the girl-child that was buried alive is asked. 9. For what sin she was slain

2. guilt

   Synonym: إِثْم (ʔiṯm)

• عُذْرٌ أَقْبَحُ مِنْ ذَنْبٍ (ʕuḏrun ʔaqbaḥu min ḏanbin)

• → Hausa: zàmba
• → Persian: ذنب
• → Ottoman Turkish: ذنب (zenb)
  • Turkish: zenb
• → Swahili: dhambi

(via plural form ذُنُوب (ḏunūb))

• Maltese: dnub
• → Fula: junuubu
• → Hausa: zùnubī̀

• “ذنب” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ذنب”, 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 96

Learned borrowing from Arabic ذَنْب (ḏanb).

• IPA^(key): /zanb/, /ðanb/

ذنب • (zanb) m (plural ذُنوب (zunūb))

1. guilt
2. sin

From Arabic ذَنَّبَ (ḏannaba).

• IPA^(key): /zan.nab/, /ðan.nab/

ذَنَّب • (zannab) II (non-past يِذَنِّب (yizannib))

1. to cause guilt
2. to scold

Borrowed from Arabic ذَنْب (ḏanb, “crime, offense, sin; guilt”).

ذنب • (zenb) (definite accusative ذنبی (zenbi), plural ذنوب (zünub))

1. fault, guilt, blame, the responsibility for a mistake or wrongdoing

   Synonyms: صوچ (suç), گناه (günah)

2. (religion) sin, a transgression against divine law or a law of God

   Synonyms: صوچ (suç), گناه (günah), وبال (vebal)

• Turkish: zenb

Borrowed from Arabic ذَنَب (ḏanab, “tail”), from Proto-Semitic *ḏanab- (“tail”).

ذنب • (zeneb) (definite accusative ذنبی (zenebi), plural اذناب (eznâb))

1. tail, the caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus

   Synonyms: دم (dum), دمبال (dumbal), قویروق (kuyruk)

2. tail, any object or part of it resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails

   Synonym: قویروق (kuyruk)

3. (botany) pedicel, petiole, footstalk, the stalk of an individual flower, leaf, or fruit, once fertilised
4. descending node, the point in an orbit at which a body passes the ecliptic plane going south

• Turkish: zeneb