لبن

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ل ب ن (l b n)
6 terms

From Proto-West Semitic *laban-.

Pronunciation

Noun

لَبَن (labanm (plural أَلْبَان (ʔalbān) or لِبَان (libān))

  1. (uncountable, Standard Arabic and Egypt colloquial) milk
    Synonym: حَلِيب (ḥalīb)
    لَا تَأْكُلِ السَّمَكَ وَتَشْرَبَ ٱللَّبَنَ فِي آنٍ وَاحِدٍ.
    lā taʔkuli s-samaka watašraba l-labana fī ʔānin wāḥidin.
    Do not eat fish and drink milk at the same time.
  2. (uncountable, Levantine, Iraq, Peninsula) coagulated sour milk; yogurt (often strained yogurt); “leban
    Synonyms: زَبَادِيّ (zabādiyy) (the original Egyptian word formed from زِبْدَة (zibda, butter)), لَبَن رَائِب (laban rāʔib) (specified to avoid confusion), رَوْب (rawb) (strictly curdled milk), يُوغُورْت (yūḡūrt), مَاسْت (māst) (Classical Arabic), جُغْرَات ~ صُقْرَاط (juḡrāt ~ ṣuqrāṭ) (Classical Arabic)
  3. (uncountable, Kuwait, Morocco, Algeria) coagulated milk drink specifically (i.e. excluding yoghurt); yoghurt or buttermilk drink.
  4. اَلْأَلْبَان (al-ʔalbān): dairy products
Declension
Descendants
  • Egyptian Arabic: لبن (laban)
  • Gulf Arabic: لِبَن (liban)
  • Hijazi Arabic: لبن (laban)
  • Iraqi Arabic: لِبَن (liban)
  • Moroccan Arabic: لبن (lban)
  • South Levantine Arabic: لبن (laban)
  • Ottoman Turkish: لبن (leben)

Etymology 2.1

As Hebrew לְבֵנָה (ləḇenā́, brick) borrowed from Aramaic לְבִינְּתָּא (ləḇinṯā, ləḇittā) (written in Classical Syriac ܠܒܬܐ (ləḇettā)), from Akkadian 𒋞 (SIG4 /⁠libittu⁠/), whence also Ugaritic 𐎍𐎁𐎐𐎚 (lbnt), from the root in Akkadian corresponding to ل ب ن (l-b-n), apparently the singulative in Arabic came first.

Pronunciation

Noun

لِبْن or لَبِن (libn or labinm (collective, singulative لِبْنَة f (libna) or لَبِنَة (labina))

  1. bricks, adobes
Declension

Etymology 2.2

Denominal verb of لَبِن (labin, brick).

Pronunciation

Verb

لَبَّنَ (labbana) II (non-past يُلَبِّنُ (yulabbinu), verbal noun تَلْبِين (talbīn))

  1. to make brick
Conjugation

References

  • lbnh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 4–5
  • Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 66

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لَبَن (laban).

Pronunciation

Noun

لبن (libanm

  1. (uncountable) leban, coagulated sour milk; yogurt drink

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لَبَن (laban).

Pronunciation

Noun

لبن (labanm

  1. leban, coagulated sour milk, yogurt drink

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic لَبَن (laban, milk).

Noun

لبن (leben)

  1. milk, a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals
    Synonyms: حلیب (halib), سوت (süt), شیر (şir)
  2. yogurt, leban, a milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
    Synonym: یوغورت (yoğurt)
Derived terms
  • لبنی (lebeni, pertaining to milk)
Descendants

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic لِبْن (libn, bricks, adobes).

Noun

لبن (libn)

  1. mudbricks, adobes, unburnt bricks dried in the sun
    Synonym: كرپیچ (kerpiç)

Further reading

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لَبَن (laban).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la.ban/,
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Noun

لبن (lábanm

  1. leban, coagulated sour milk
  2. yogurt