تبن

تَبَنٍّ • (tabannin) m (construct state تَبَنِّي (tabannī))

1. verbal noun of تَبَنَّى (tabannā) (form V)
2. adoption

Likely borrowed from Aramaic תִּבְנָא / ܬܒܢܐ (teḇnā, “straw”), which is suspected mainly because of the varying vocalization, and also because this root is underdeveloped or it has the unrelated meaning of a “bowl”. The Aramaic might in turn come from Akkadian 𒅔𒉡𒁕 (/⁠tibnu⁠/, “straw”) but can likewise be cognate. Else the word is only present in Hebrew תֶּבֶן (teḇen, “straw”), in which language there is nothing to relate to either.

تِبْن or تَبْن • (tibn or tabn) m (collective, plural أَتْبَان (ʔatbān))

1. straw; hay

• تِبْنِيّ (tibniyy, “straw-related; straw-coloured”)
• تَبَّان (tabbān, “straw vendor”)
• مَتْبَن (matban, “place where the straw is stacked”)
• تَبَنَ (tabana, “to give straw to”)
• تَبَّنَ (tabbana, “to feed straw to; to bung, to cork”)
• تَتَبَّنَ (tatabbana, “to be bunged, to be corked”)

Denominal verb of تِبْن (tibn, “straw”). In the “to bung” sense allegedly motivated by Spanish taponar.

تَبَنَ • (tabana) I (non-past يَتْبِنُ (yatbinu), verbal noun تَبْن (tabn))

1. to give straw to, to feed with straw; to sell straw

تَبَّنَ • (tabbana) II (non-past يُتَبِّنُ (yutabbinu), verbal noun تَتْبِين (tatbīn))

1. to feed with straw
2. to bung, to cork

تَبْن • (tabn) m

1. verbal noun of تَبَنَ (tabana, “to give straw to”)

Uncertain with possible connection to Akkadian 𒋰𒉌𒌈 (/⁠tabnītu⁠/, “an offering basket, a place to deposit tribute to a ruler or offerings before deities”, literally “well-arranged, well-made or constructed”) and Akkadian 𒁀𒀀𒉡 (/⁠bānu⁠/, “a ewer, vessel that fills up other vessels”, literally “that which does what it was made for; a by-name for a ewer in ritual texts”), therefore distantly being connected to ب ن ي (b-n-y).

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تِبْن • (tibn) m

1. a great bowl that can satisfy the thirst of twenty, a vessel used to fill drinking cups
2. a generous chieftain, one who gives large amounts
3. a wolf for its thirst for blood being likened to a great vessel's amount

Like the more productive root ط ب ن (ṭ-b-n), from which there is with the like meanings طَبِنَ (ṭabina) and طَبِن (ṭabin).

تَبِنَ • (tabina) I (non-past يَتْبَنُ (yatbanu), verbal noun تَبَن (taban) or تَبَانَة (tabāna))

1. to be sagacious, to be callid, to be skillful in knowing, to be minute in inspection

تَبِن • (tabin)

1. intelligent, callid, sagacious, skillful in knowing, minute in inspection

تَبَن • (taban) m

1. verbal noun of تَبِنَ (tabina, “to be callid”)

تبن (form I)

1. تَبِنَّ (tabinna) /ta.bin.na/: second-person feminine plural non-past active indicative/subjunctive/jussive of بَانَ (bāna)
2. تَبِنْ (tabin) /ta.bin/: inflection of بَانَ (bāna):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive

تبن (form I)

1. تَبْنِ (tabni) /tab.ni/: inflection of بَنَى (banā):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
2. تُبْنَ (tubna) /tub.na/: inflection of بَنَى (banā):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

تُبْنَ • (tubna) (form I) /tub.na/

1. inflection of تَابَ (tāba):
   1. third-person feminine plural past active
   2. second-person feminine plural imperative

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