# طنب
## Arabic
### Etymology

Unknown. Maybe extended from طُنّ (ṭunn, “bundle of reeds”), see there for other comparisons, maybe related with طُنُف (ṭunuf), طُنْف (ṭunf), طَنَف (ṭanaf), طَنْف (ṭanf, “overhang of a mountain or a building, cornice, eaves etc.”), which must be judged by the meanings of Ge'ez ጥንፍ (ṭənf, “prominence; cornice; cross-beam, joint between pillars etc.”).

### Noun

طَنَب • (ṭanab) m
* (Yemen) Cordia africana
    Hypernym: سِبِسْتَان (sibistān)

#### Declension
### Noun

طُنُب or طُنْب • (ṭunub or ṭunb) m (plural أَطْنَاب (ʔaṭnāb) or طِنَبَة (ṭinaba)) (archaic)
* rope, line
    Synonyms: حَبْل (ḥabl), مَرَسَة (marasa), رِبَاط (ribāṭ), قَلْس (qals), أَشْل (ʔašl), سَبَب (sabab)
* artery or tendon

#### Derived terms

* أَطْنَبَ (ʔaṭnaba, “to exceed the bounds, to have a long course”)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: tənab
* → Classical Syriac: ܛܘܢܒܐ (ṭunbā)
* → Ottoman Turkish: طنب (tunb, tunüb), طنف (tunüf, tünef, tenef), تنف (tunüf, tünef, tenef), طناب (tenab) — Vulgar Turkish
** Turkish: tunub, tenef (dialectal)
** → Bulgarian: тенеп (tenep), тенеф (tenef)
** → Northern Kurdish: tenef, tenab
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐнеф, тѐнеп
    Latin script: tènef, tènep
* → Urdu: طنب (tunub)

### Verb

طَنِبَ • (ṭaniba) I (non-past يَطْنَبُ (yaṭnabu), verbal noun طَنَب (ṭanab)) (obsolete)
* to be curved, crooked, hurled
* to have long and weak feet
* to have a long back (said of a horse)

#### Conjugation
### Verb

طَنَّبَ • (ṭannaba) II (non-past يُطَنِّبُ (yuṭannibu), verbal noun تَطْنِيب (taṭnīb)) (archaic)
* to bind or tie with a rope
* to stay, to abide in [with بِِ (bii) ‘in’]
* to be exceedingly diligent, to be overly zealous
* to howl (said of a wolf)

#### Conjugation
### References

* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 825
* Delitzsch, Franz, Keil, Carl Friedrich (1873) Biblischer Commentar über das Alte Testament. Vierter Theil. Poetische Bücher. Dritter Band: Das Salomonische Spruchbuch‎ (in German), Erste edition, Leipzig: Dörffling und Franke, page 127
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “طنب”, 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 73b
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “طنب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 646

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* طنف (tunüf, tünef, tenef), تنف (tunüf, tünef, tenef), طناب (tenab) — Vulgar Turkish

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic طُنُب (ṭunub, “rope, line”).

### Noun

طنب • (tunb, tunub) (plural اطناب (etnab))
* string, cord, rope, line, thick strands of other cordage that are twisted together
    Synonyms: ایپ (ip), حبل (habl), خلاط (halat), رسن (resen), ریسمان (risman)
* (specifically) tent-rope, a rope attached to a tentpole, used to support the structure
* tendon, sinew, a fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment
    Synonyms: سڭیر (siñir), عصب (ʿasab), كرش (kiriş)
* (by extension) sunbeam, a visible, narrow and intense ray of sunlight
    Synonyms: پرتو (pertev), تیغ (tiğ), شعاع (şuaʿ)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tunub, tenef (dialectal)
* → Bulgarian: тенеп (tenep), тенеф (tenef)
* → Northern Kurdish: tenef, tenab
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐнеф, тѐнеп
    Latin script: tènef, tènep

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tunub”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4910
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tunub”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1339
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طناب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 808
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Funis”, 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, Vienna, column 632
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طنب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3129
* Miklosich, Franz (1884) Die türkischen Elemente in den südost- und osteuropäischen Sprachen (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe)‎ (in German), volume 35, Wien: In Commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طنب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1246