kurban

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قربان (kurban).

Pronunciation

Noun

kurban m (plural kurbane)

  1. sacrificed livestock (religion) on Eid or other Muslim holidays or (archaic) when building a house
  2. (colloquial) sacrifice (that which is sacrificed)
    Synonyms: fli, theror
  3. (colloquial) victim (in a natural disaster)
    Synonym: viktimë

References

  • “kurbán,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 922f.
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kurban”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 273f.
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “kurban”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 229a
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “kurbán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 215

Esperanto

Adjective

kurban

  1. accusative singular of kurba

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay korban, from Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān), from Aramaic קורבנא (qurbānā). Cognate to Hebrew קָרְבָּן (qorbān). Doublet of korban.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: kur‧ban

Noun

kurban (first-person possessive kurbanku, second-person possessive kurbanmu, third-person possessive kurbannya)

  1. (Islam) the ritual sacrifice at Eid ul-Adha
  2. sacrifice to God, gift to God, corban
  3. victim, a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    Synonym: korban

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قربان (kurban), from Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǔrbaːn/
  • Hyphenation: kur‧ban

Noun

kùrbān m (Cyrillic spelling ку̀рба̄н)

  1. victim
  2. sacrifice

Declension

Declension of kurban
singular plural
nominative kùrbān kurbani
genitive kurbána kurbana
dative kurbanu kurbanima
accusative kurban kurbane
vocative kurbane kurbani
locative kurbanu kurbanima
instrumental kurbanom kurbanima

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قربان (kurban), from Arabic قُرْبَان (qurbān).

Pronunciation

Noun

kurban (definite accusative kurbanı, plural kurbanlar)

  1. victim
  2. sacrifice

Declension

Inflection
Nominative kurban
Definite accusative kurbanı
Singular Plural
Nominative kurban kurbanlar
Definite accusative kurbanı kurbanları
Dative kurbana kurbanlara
Locative kurbanda kurbanlarda
Ablative kurbandan kurbanlardan
Genitive kurbanın kurbanların
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