أأبن

Soqotri

Alternative forms

• آبن (óbən)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔabn-. Akin to Mehri [script needed] (ḥawbin).

Noun

أأبن (óʔobən) f (dual أبني (óbni), plural أبهن (ö́bhon))

1. stone
   • 2014, “Picking Out a Husband for One's Daughter”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 122, line 15:

     وداه بحڸف بيڛي شرهم وبيڛي أبهن.

     wa-də bə-ḥaḷf bíŝi šérhom wa-bíŝi ö́bhon

     For the place had neither trees nor stones.

References

• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 464
• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 378
• Leslau, Wolf (1938) “ʾóben”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 49