# تبن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ب ن ن (b n n)
* 1 term

#### Noun

تَبَنٍّ • (tabannin) m (construct state تَبَنِّي (tabannī))
* verbal noun of تَبَنَّى (tabannā) (form V)
* adoption

##### Declension
### Etymology 2.1

Likely borrowed from Aramaic תִּבְנָא / ܬܒܢܐ (teḇnā, “straw”), which is suspected mainly because of the varying vocalization, and also because this root is underdeveloped or it has the unrelated meaning of a “bowl”. The Aramaic might in turn come from Akkadian 𒅔𒉡𒁕 (/⁠tibnu⁠/, “straw”) but can likewise be cognate. Else the word is only present in Hebrew תֶּבֶן (teḇen, “straw”), in which language there is nothing to relate to either.

#### Noun

تِبْن or تَبْن • (tibn or tabn) m (collective, plural أَتْبَان (ʔatbān))
* straw; hay

##### Derived terms

* تِبْنِيّ (tibniyy, “straw-related; straw-coloured”)
* تَبَّان (tabbān, “straw vendor”)
* مَتْبَن (matban, “place where the straw is stacked”)
* تَبَنَ (tabana, “to give straw to”)
* تَبَّنَ (tabbana, “to feed straw to; to bung, to cork”)
* تَتَبَّنَ (tatabbana, “to be bunged, to be corked”)

### Etymology 2.2

Denominal verb of تِبْن (tibn, “straw”). In the “to bung” sense allegedly motivated by Spanish taponar.

#### Verb

تَبَنَ • (tabana) I (non-past يَتْبِنُ (yatbinu), verbal noun تَبْن (tabn))
* to give straw to, to feed with straw; to sell straw

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2.3
#### Verb

تَبَّنَ • (tabbana) II (non-past يُتَبِّنُ (yutabbinu), verbal noun تَتْبِين (tatbīn))
* to feed with straw
* to bung, to cork

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2.4
#### Noun

تَبْن • (tabn) m
* verbal noun of تَبَنَ (tabana, “to give straw to”)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Uncertain with possible connection to Akkadian 𒋰𒉌𒌈 (/⁠tabnītu⁠/, “an offering basket, a place to deposit tribute to a ruler or offerings before deities”, literally “well-arranged, well-made or constructed”) and Akkadian 𒁀𒀀𒉡 (/⁠bānu⁠/, “a ewer, vessel that fills up other vessels”, literally “that which does what it was made for; a by-name for a ewer in ritual texts”), therefore distantly being connected to ب ن ي (b n y).
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#### Noun

تِبْن • (tibn) m
* a great bowl that can satisfy the thirst of twenty, a vessel used to fill drinking cups
* a generous chieftain, one who gives large amounts
* a wolf for its thirst for blood being likened to a great vessel's amount

##### Declension
### Etymology 4.1

Like the more productive root ط ب ن (ṭ b n), from which there is with the like meanings طَبِنَ (ṭabina) and طَبِن (ṭabin).

#### Verb

تَبِنَ • (tabina) I (non-past يَتْبَنُ (yatbanu), verbal noun تَبَن (taban) or تَبَانَة (tabāna))
* to be sagacious, to be callid, to be skillful in knowing, to be minute in inspection

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 4.2
#### Adjective

تَبِن • (tabin)
* intelligent, callid, sagacious, skillful in knowing, minute in inspection

##### Declension
### Etymology 4.3
#### Noun

تَبَن • (taban) m
* verbal noun of تَبِنَ (tabina, “to be callid”)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

تبن (form I)
* تَبِنَّ (tabinna) /ta.bin.na/: second-person feminine plural non-past active indicative/subjunctive/jussive of بَانَ (bāna)
* تَبِنْ (tabin) /ta.bin/: inflection of بَانَ (bāna):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
** third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

تبن (form I)
* تَبْنِ (tabni) /tab.ni/: inflection of بَنَى (banā):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
** third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
* تُبْنَ (tubna) /tub.na/: inflection of بَنَى (banā):
** second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
** third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

تُبْنَ • (tubna) (form I) /tub.na/
* inflection of تَابَ (tāba):
** third-person feminine plural past active
** second-person feminine plural imperative

### References

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* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “تبن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 141
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