sapun

See also: sapún, săpun, and Săpun

Cypriot Arabic

Root
s-p-n
1 term

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *seyb-?

Proto-Germanic *saipǭbor.

Latin sāpōbor.

Ancient Greek σάπων (sápōn)bor.

Classical Syriac ܨܲܦ݁ܘܿܢܵܐ (ṣappōnā)bor.

Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn)

Cypriot Arabic sapun

Inherited from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn).

Noun

sapún m (plural spepín)

1. soap

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 308

Maltese

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin sāpō, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ. The word was probably inherited from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn), which is clearly old enough to have passed into Maltese. The -p- does of course betray influence by cognate Sicilian sapuni, but does not prove borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈpuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

sapun m (collective, singulative sapuna, plural spapen or spajjen, paucal sapuniet)

1. soap

Derived terms

• bużżieqa tas-sapun
• sapun tal-misk

Related terms

• sapnatura
• sapunetta
• sapuniera
• ssapna (insapna)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin sapo, saponis, probably through the intermediate of Byzantine Greek σαπούνιον (sapoúnion). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎpuːn/
• Hyphenation: sa‧pun

Noun

sàpūn m inan (Cyrillic spelling са̀пӯн)

1. soap

Declension

Declension of sapun

	singular	plural
nominative	sàpūn	sapuni
genitive	sapúna	sapuna
dative	sapunu	sapunima
accusative	sapun	sapune
vocative	sapune	sapuni
locative	sapunu	sapunima
instrumental	sapunom	sapunima

Further reading

• “sapun”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026