صابون

Arabic

Etymology

From Aramaic צַפּוֹן / ܨܦܘܢ (ṣappōn), from Ancient Greek σάπων (sápōn), from Latin sāpōnem, accusative of sāpō, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤaː.buːn/

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Noun

صَابُون • (ṣābūn) m

1. (uncountable) soap

Declension

Declension of noun صَابُون (ṣābūn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	صَابُون ṣābūn	الصَّابُون aṣ-ṣābūn	صَابُون ṣābūn
Nominative	صَابُونٌ ṣābūnun	الصَّابُونُ aṣ-ṣābūnu	صَابُونُ ṣābūnu
Accusative	صَابُونًا ṣābūnan	الصَّابُونَ aṣ-ṣābūna	صَابُونَ ṣābūna
Genitive	صَابُونٍ ṣābūnin	الصَّابُونِ aṣ-ṣābūni	صَابُونِ ṣābūni

Derived terms

• صَابُونَة sg (ṣābūna)

Descendants

• Egyptian Arabic: صابونة (ṣabūna)
• → Abaza: сабын (sabən)
• → Abkhaz: асапын (asapʼən)
• → Amharic: ሳሙና (samuna), ሳቡና (sabuna)
• → Azerbaijani: sabun
• → Bashkir: һабын (habın)
• → Buryat: саван (savan)
• → Central Kurdish: سابون (sabun)
• → Chechen: саба (saba)
• → Chuvash: супӑнь (sup̬ănʹ)
• → Classical Persian: صابون (sābūn)
  • → Assamese: চাবোন (sabün)
  • → Bengali: সাবান (śaban)
  • → Gujarati: સાબુ (sābu)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: साबुन (sābun), साबन (sāban)

    Urdu: صابن (sābun)

  • → Kannada: ಸಾಬೂನು (sābūnu)
  • → Khmer: សាប៊ូ (saabuu)
  • → Malay: sabun
    • Iban: sabun
    • Indonesian: sabun
    • → Balinese: ᬲᬩᬸᬦ᭄ (sabun)
    • → Lun Bawang: sabun
    • → Makasar: sabung
      • → Dhuwal: jaabu
    • → Hainanese: 差文
    • →? Hokkien: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
      • → Amis: safon
      • → Kavalan: sabun
      • → Puyuma: sabun
      • → Tsou: savungu
    • → Sundanese: sabun
    • → Teochew: 雪文 (sab⁴ bhung⁵)
  • → Nepali: सावुन (sāwun)
  • → Old Marathi: साबण (sābaṇa)
    • Marathi: साबण (sābaṇ)
  • → Odia: ସାବୁନ (sabunô)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਸਾਬਣ (sābaṇ), ਸਬੂਣ (sabūṇ)

    Shahmukhi script: صابݨ (sābaṇ)

  • → Rakhine: သပုန်
  • → Sinhalese: සබන් (saban)
  • → Telugu: సబ్బు (sabbu)
  • → Thai: สบู่ (sà-bùu)
    • → Lao: ສະບູ່ (sa bū)
• → Crimean Tatar: sabun
• → Dargwa: сапун (sapun)
• → Dhivehi: ސައިބޯނި (saibōni)
• → Gagauz: sabun
• → Hausa: sabulu
• → Ingush: сапа (sapa)
• → Javanese: sabun
• → Kalmyk: савң (savñ)
• → Karachay-Balkar: сапын (sapın)
• → Karaim: сабун (sabun)
• → Karakalpak: сабын (sabın)
• → Kavalan: sabun
• → Kazakh: сабын (sabyn)
• → Kumyk: сапун (sapun)
• → Kyrgyz: самын (samın)
• → Maguindanao: sabun
• → Malay: sabun
  • Iban: sabun
  • Indonesian: sabun
  • → Balinese: ᬲᬩᬸᬦ᭄ (sabun)
  • → Lun Bawang: sabun
  • → Makasar: sabung
    • → Dhuwal: jaabu
  • → Hainanese: 差文
  • →? Hokkien: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
    • → Amis: safon
    • → Kavalan: sabun
    • → Puyuma: sabun
    • → Tsou: savungu
  • → Sundanese: sabun
  • → Teochew: 雪文 (sab⁴ bhung⁵)
• → Mongolian: саван (savan)
• → Nogai: сабын (sabın)
• → Northern Kurdish: sabûn
• → Northern Luri: ساوی (sāwi)
• → Pashto: سابون (sābūn)
• → Somali: saabuun
• → Southern Altai: самын (samïn)
• → Swahili: sabuni
  • → Gusii: esabuni
  • → Kikuyu: thabuni
  • → Kongo: sabuni
  • → Lingala: sabúni
  • → Luganda: sabbuuni
  • → Luhya: esabuni
  • → Sukuma: sabuni
  • → Maore Comorian: sabuni
  • → Ngazidja Comorian: saɓuni
  • → Rwanda-Rundi: isabune
• → Tatar: сабын (sabın)
  • → Erzya: сапонь (sapoń)
  • → Moksha: сапонь (sapoń)
  • → Shor: сабын
• → Tigre: ሳቡን (sabun)
• → Tigrinya: ሳሙና (samuna)
• → Turkish: sabun
  • → Adyghe: сабын (sabən)
  • → Kabardian: сабын (sabən)
  • → Khakas: сабын (sabın)
• → Turkmen: sabyn
• → Tuvan: саваң (savañ)
• → Uzbek: sovun
• → Western Mari: шавынь (šavyń)

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 291

Azerbaijani

Noun

صابون (sabun) (definite accusative صابونو, plural صابونلار)

1. Arabic spelling of sabun (“soap”)

Declension

Declension of صابون

	singular	plural
nominative	صابون	صابونلار
definite accusative	صابونۇ	صابونلارێ
dative	صابونا	صابونلارا
locative	صابوندا	صابونلاردا
ablative	صابوندان	صابونلاردان
definite genitive	صابونۇن	صابونلارێن

Ottoman Turkish

صابون

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn), ultimately from Latin sāpō (“soap”).

Noun

صابون • (sabun)

1. soap, a detergent substance used for cleaning

Derived terms

• صابون اوتی (sabun otu, “soapwort”)
• صابون طاشی (sabun taşı, “soapstone”)
• صابونجی (sabuncu, “soapmaker”)
• صابونخانه (sabunhane, “soapery”)
• صابونلامق (sabunlamak, “to soap”)
• صابونلامه (sabunlama, “soaping”)
• صابونلاندرمق (sabunlandirmak, “to make or let become soap”)
• صابونلانمق (sabunlanmak, “to be soaped”)
• صابونی (sabuni, “pertaining to soap”)
• صابونیه (sabuniye, “kind of Turkish dessert”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sabun
  • → Adyghe: сабын (sabən)
  • → Kabardian: сабын (sabən)
  • → Khakas: сабын (sabın)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sabun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3998
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صابون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 293b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صابون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 743
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sapo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1510
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صابون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2906
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sabun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صابون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150

Persian

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sɑː.ˈβuːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɑː.búːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɑː.búːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɑː.búːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sɔː.bún]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sɒː.búːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sɔ.bún]

Readings
Classical reading?	sāḇūn
Dari reading?	sābūn
Iranian reading?	sâbun
Tajik reading?	sobun

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Noun

Dari	صابون
Iranian Persian
Tajik	собун

صابون • (sâbun) (plural صابون‌ها (sâbun-hâ))

1. soap

Descendants

Descendants

• → Assamese: চাবোন (sabün)
• → Bengali: সাবান (śaban)
• → Gujarati: સાબુ (sābu)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: साबुन (sābun), साबन (sāban)

  Urdu: صابن (sābun)

• → Kannada: ಸಾಬೂನು (sābūnu)
• → Khmer: សាប៊ូ (saabuu)
• → Malay: sabun
  • Iban: sabun
  • Indonesian: sabun
  • → Balinese: ᬲᬩᬸᬦ᭄ (sabun)
  • → Lun Bawang: sabun
  • → Makasar: sabung
    • → Dhuwal: jaabu
  • → Hainanese: 差文
  • →? Hokkien: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
    • → Amis: safon
    • → Kavalan: sabun
    • → Puyuma: sabun
    • → Tsou: savungu
  • → Sundanese: sabun
  • → Teochew: 雪文 (sab⁴ bhung⁵)
• → Nepali: सावुन (sāwun)
• → Old Marathi: साबण (sābaṇa)
  • Marathi: साबण (sābaṇ)
• → Odia: ସାବୁନ (sabunô)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸਾਬਣ (sābaṇ), ਸਬੂਣ (sabūṇ)

  Shahmukhi script: صابݨ (sābaṇ)

• → Rakhine: သပုန်
• → Sinhalese: සබන් (saban)
• → Telugu: సబ్బు (sabbu)
• → Thai: สบู่ (sà-bùu)
  • → Lao: ສະບູ່ (sa bū)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤaː.buːn/, [sˤɑˈbuːn]

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Noun

صابون • (ṣābūn) m (collective, singulative صابونة f (ṣābūne), paucal صابونات (ṣābūnāt))

1. (uncountable) soap

   غسّل إيديك بالصابون!

   ḡassel ʔīdēk biṣ-ṣābūn!

   Wash your hands with soap!