شبين

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Noun

شَبِين or شِبِين (šabīn or šibīnm (plural شَبَائِن (šabāʔin), feminine شَبِينَة (šabīna) or شِبِينَة (šibīna))

  1. informal form of إِشْبِين (ʔišbīn).
Declension

Etymology 2

شَبِّين

From Latin sappīnus. Not to be confused with شَبِينَة (šabīna, savin, Juniperus sabina) (from Latin sabīna), nor with شَرْبِين (šarbīn, cypress).

Noun

شَبِّين or شَبِين (šabbīn or šabīnm (obsolete)

  1. a species of pine or fir, Pinus picea syn. Abies pectinata syn. Abies alba
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Maimonides to this entry?)
Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “شبين”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 724
  • Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, pages 571–572
  • Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 314
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شبين”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 631