سبج

Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷséps

Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáps

Proto-Iranian *xšáfš

Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎱 (x-š-p /⁠xšapa⁠/)

Middle Persian šp (/⁠šab⁠/)

Middle Persian špk' (/⁠šabag⁠/)bor.

Arabic سَبَج

Borrowed from Middle Persian špk' (/⁠šabag⁠/), from šp (/⁠šab⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎱 (x-š-p /⁠xšapa⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *xšáfš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáps, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷséps.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.bad͡ʒ/

Noun

سَبَج • (sabaj) m

1. the gemstones jet and obsidian or similar minerals

Declension

Declension of noun سَبَج (sabaj)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	سَبَج sabaj	السَّبَج as-sabaj	سَبَج sabaj
nominative	سَبَجٌ sabajun	السَّبَجُ as-sabaju	سَبَجُ sabaju
accusative	سَبَجًا sabajan	السَّبَجَ as-sabaja	سَبَجَ sabaja
genitive	سَبَجٍ sabajin	السَّبَجِ as-sabaji	سَبَجِ sabaji

Derived terms

• سُبْجَة (subja, “black garment”)
• سَبِيجَة (sabīja, “black garment”)
• سَبَّاج (sabbāj, “black-gemstone vendor”)

Descendants

• → Catalan: atzabeja
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: azaveche, asibiche, azebeche, azibiche, aziviche
  • Galician: acibeche
  • Portuguese: azeviche
• → Spanish: azabache

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “سبج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 624
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “سبج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 275
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “سبج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 477
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “سبج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 545