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ʾ b n

19 lemmas · 10 languages
hamzatedContains ʾ (glottal stop) in position 1 or 3. Glottal stops assimilate or elide in many inflections, producing irregular surface forms.📜 Gen.31.45
Themes:stone· حَجَر · אֶבֶן·7rock·4stones· حِجَارَة · אֲבָנִים·2material·2piece·2
POS shape:noun·16verb·2root·1

This root is attested across 10 Semitic languages in our index. Each section below shows representative lemmas; attested means a Wiktionary editor explicitly tagged the root, inferredmeans we derived it mechanically from the word's consonantal skeleton.

Etymology treehow this root diverged from Proto-Semitic through the family

*ʾ-b-nProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Ugariticʾabnu𐎀 𐎁 𐎐stone
Canaanite
Hebrewאֶבֶןא ב ןstone (a piece of such material: a rock or a pebble)
Phoenician𐤀𐤁𐤍𐤀 𐤁 𐤍stone
Punic𐤀𐤁𐤍𐤀 𐤁 𐤍stone, rock
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicאַבְנָאא ב נrock, stone (material)
Syriacܐܒܢܐܐ ܒ ܢrock, stone (substance or piece)
Arabic
Arabicأَبَّنَء ب نto eulogize, to pay homage to a dead person, to commemorate the times of
South Semitic
Old South Arabian
Sabaean𐩱𐩨𐩬𐩱 𐩨 𐩬stones
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezአቡነአ በ ነour father
Amharicአቡነአ በ ነbishop

Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.

Ugaritic

irregular reflexug · 1 lemma

Phoenician

irregular reflexphn · 1 lemma

Punic

irregular reflexpun · 1 lemma

Sabaean

irregular reflexsab · 1 lemma

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 1 lemma
  • ʾaḇnānouninferred𐡀 tg. Onk. Gen 28:18Wiktionary ↗
    rock, stone (material)
    From Proto-Semitic *ʾabn-.

Classical Syriac

syc · 1 lemma
  • ʾaḇnānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    rock, stone (substance or piece)
    From Proto-Semitic *ʾabn-.
    2 derivations

Hebrew

he · 5 lemmas
  • évennounattested📜 Gen.31.45Wiktionary ↗
    stone (a piece of such material: a rock or a pebble)
    From Proto-Semitic *ʔabn-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔabun-.
    5 derivations
  • avnánnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    lithium (the simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and atomic weight of 6.94)
    From אֶבֶן (éven, “stone”) + ־ן (-n).
  • avnítnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    scale, limescale
  • ibnnouninferred📜 Gen.31.45Wiktionary ↗
    ibn
    From Arabic اِبْن (ibn).
  • ʾ-b-nrootinferred📜 Gen.31.45Wiktionary ↗
    Related to stones.
    Presumably denominative from אֶבֶן (éven, “stone”), eventually from Proto-Semitic *ʔabn-.

Arabic

ar · 5 lemmas
  • ʔabbanaverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to eulogize, to pay homage to a dead person, to commemorate the times of
    Denominal verb of إِبَّان (ʔibbān, “time”).
  • taʔabbanaverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to follow step by step
  • ibnnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    Judeo-Arabic spelling of اِبْن (ibn, “son”)
  • ʔabnūsnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    ebony (Diospyros ebenum tree and wood)
    Borrowed from Classical Persian آبْنُوس (ābnūs), Middle Persian ʾpnws (abnūs), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj (“ebony”).
  • ʔabniyūmūnnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    apneumone

Ge'ez

gez · 2 lemmas

Amharic

am · 1 lemma

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with ʾ-b-n

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