ظربان

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Pronunciation

Noun

ظَرِبَان (ẓaribānm (plural ظَرَابِين (ẓarābīn) or ظَرَابِيّ (ẓarābiyy) or ظِرْبَى (ẓirbā))

  1. polecat
  2. (Modern Standard Arabic) skunk

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Descendants

  • Moroccan Arabic: ضربان (ḍurbān, porcupine)
    • Israeli Hebrew: דָּרְבָּן (dorbā́n)

Further reading

  • ظربان” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “ظربان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 86b
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ظربان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1909c–1910a
  • Venzlaff, Helga (1977) Der marokkanische Drogenhändler und seine Ware. Ein Beitrag zu Terminologie und volkstümlichem Gebrauch traditioneller arabischer Materia Medica (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Veröffentlichungen der orientalischen Kommission; 31) (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, →ISBN, pages 158–160