آبنوس

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾpnws /⁠abnūs⁠/), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj (“ebony”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaːb.ˈnuːs/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.nuːs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.nuːs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.nuːs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːb.nus]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːb.nuːs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔb.nus]

Readings
Classical reading?	ābnūs
Dari reading?	ābnūs
Iranian reading?	âbnus
Tajik reading?	obnus

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

آبنوس • (ābnūs / âbnus) (Tajik spelling обнус)

1. ebony

Descendants

• → Arabic: أَبْنُوس (ʔabnūs), آبِنُوس (ʔābinūs), يَابَنُوس (yābanūs) — obsolete
  • → Catalan: banús
  • → Hebrew: יאבנוס, אבנוס (Medieval)
  • → Spanish: ebanuz
  • → Malay: abnus
  • → Swahili: abunusi
• → Bengali: আবলুস (abolus)
• → Gujarati: અબનૂસ (abanūs), અબનૂરા (abanūrā)
• → Hindi: आबनूस (ābnūs)
• → Middle Armenian: ապանօս (apanōs)
  • Armenian: աբանոս (abanos)
• → Ottoman Turkish: آبانوز (abanoz), آبنوس (abnus) — obsolete, ապանօզ (abanoz) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: abanoz
  • → Albanian: abanoz
  • → Armenian: ապանօզ (apanōz)
  • → Aromanian: abanozi
  • → Bulgarian: абано́с (abanós)
  • → Georgian: აბანოზი (abanozi)
  • → Greek: αμπανόζι (ampanózi)
  • → Macedonian: абонос (abonos)
  • → Romanian: abanos
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: а̀бонос

    Latin script: àbonos

• → Uyghur: ئابنۇس (abnus)