عنکبوت

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عنکبوت

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَنْكَبُوت (ʕankabūt). Displaced native جولا (jôlâ) in Iranian Persian.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ankaḇūt
Dari reading? ankabūt
Iranian reading? ankabut
Tajik reading? ankabüt

Noun

Dari جولا
Iranian Persian عنکبوت
Tajik анкабӯт, тортанак

عَنْکَبوت • (ankabut) (plural عنکبوت‌ها (ankabut-hâ) or عناکب ('anâkeb) or عنکبوتان (ankabutân))

  1. spider
    Synonyms: (Dari) جولَا (jōlā), تارْتَنَک (târtanak)
    • late 1400s, Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī, فاتحة الشباب‎:
      شد دو سه تاری که عنکبوت تنیدش
      بر در آن غار پرده دار محمد
      šud du si tārē ki ankabūt tanīd-aš
      bar dar-i ān ğār parda dār-i muhammad
      The two or three threads that the spider wove for him
      On the door of the cave, were the veil of Muhammad.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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