قبان

Arabic

قَبَّان

Alternative forms

  • قَفَّان (qaffān), قَنْبَان (qanbān)

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek κάμπανος (kámpanos), γάμπανος (gámpanos), from Latin campāna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qab.baːn/
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

قَبَّان • (qabbān) m

  1. stilyard [from the later 11th century]
    Synonym: قَرَسْطُون (qarasṭūn)

Declension

Derived terms

  • قَبَّنَ (qabbana, to weigh with a steelyard)

Descendants

  • Amharic: ቀባን (ḳäbban)

References

  • Abattouy, Mohammed (2011) “A New Arabic Text of Mechanics: Sinan ibn Thabit on the Theory of Simple Machines”, in Muslim Heritage
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission) (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 416–417 Nr. 1424
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قبان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 395b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قبان”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 670a
  • Martinez, A. P. (1992) “The Third Portion of the History of Ğāzān Xān in Rašīdu’d-Dīn’s Taʼrīx-e Mobārak-e Ğāzānī. [Part two]”, in Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, volume 8, Otto Harrassowitz, published 1994, →ISBN, page 139 fn. 54, claiming an unrealistic development from Aeolic Greek καπᾱ́νᾱ (kapā́nā), καπᾱ́νη (kapā́nē, literally cross-piece of a harness as well as a chariot) corresponding to classical ἀπήνη (apḗnē, mule-drawn chariot)
  • Wiedemann, Eilhard (1906) Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. VI. Zur Mechanik und Technik bei den Arabern (Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medizinischen Sozietät; 38) (in German), Erlangen: Junge & Sohn, published 1907, pages 7–8
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