Avicenna

English

Alternative forms

• Ibn Sina, Ibn Sīnā
• Pur Sina, Pursina

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌævɪˈsenə/

Proper noun

Avicenna

1. Latinized name of Ibn Sina, a Persian polymath

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Avicennia
• Avicennian

• Avicennism
• avicennite

Translations

a Persian polymath

• Arabic: اِبْن سِينَا m (ibn sīnā)
• Armenian: Ավիցեննա (Avicʻenna)
• Catalan: Avicenna m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊本·西那 (Yīběn-Xinà), 阿維森納／阿维森纳 (zh), 阿维森纳 (zh) (Āwéisēnnà)

• French: Avicenne (fr) m
• German: Avicenna m
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• Italian: Avicenna m
• Japanese: イブン・スィーナー (Ibun-Sīnā), アウィケンナ (Avikenna)
• Persian: پور سینا (Pūr-e Sīnā), ابن سینا (Ebn-e Sīnā)
• Russian: Ибн Си́на m (Ibn Sína), Авице́нна m (Avicénna)
• Spanish: Avicena m
• Turkish: İbn-i Sina
• Uyghur: ئىبىن سىنا (ibin sina)

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Italian

miniatura di Avicenna — Avicenna in a miniature

Etymology

From a Latinization of Persian ابن سينا (Ibn Sīnā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃɛn.na/, [äviˈt͡ʃɛn̺n̺ä]
• Rhymes: -ɛnna
• Hyphenation: A‧vi‧cèn‧na

Proper noun

Avicenna m

1. Avicenna (Persian polymath, 980 ca. C.E.–1037 C.E.)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, page 64, lines 140–144:

     […] e vidi Orfeo, ¶ Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale; ¶ Eulide geomètra e Tolomeo, ¶ Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno, ¶ Averoìs che ’l gran comento feo.

     and Orpheus saw I, Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca, Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and ⁠Galen, and Averroes, who the great Comment made.

Derived terms

• avicennia
• avicenniano
• avicennismo
• avicennista

Further reading

• Avicenna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it