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Maltese
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin sāpō, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ. The word was probably inherited from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn), which is clearly old enough to have passed into Maltese. The -p- does of course betray influence by cognate Sicilian sapuni, but does not prove borrowing.
Pronunciation
Noun
sapun m (collective, singulative sapuna, plural spapen or spajjen, paucal sapuniet)
- soap
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Latin sapo, saponis, probably through the intermediate of Byzantine Greek σαπούνιον (sapoúnion). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sǎpuːn/
- Hyphenation: sa‧pun
Noun
sàpūn m (Cyrillic spelling са̀пӯн)
- soap
Declension
References
- “sapun”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024