# شبنم
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

شبنم
* Arabic spelling of şəbnəm

### Proper noun

شبنم
* Arabic spelling of Şəbnəm

## Chagatai
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).

### Noun

شَبْنَم (transliteration needed)
* dew

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: شەبنەم (shebnem)
* Uzbek: shabnam

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).

### Noun

شَبْنَم • (şebnem)
* dew

#### Descendants

* Turkish: şebnem

### Proper noun

شَبْنَم • (Şebnem)
* a female given name, Şebnem, Shebnem, or Shabnam

#### Descendants

* Turkish: Şebnem

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).

### Noun

شَبْنَم • (šabnám) m
* dew

## Persian
### Etymology

From شب (šab, “night”) +‎ نم (nam, “moisture, humidity”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʃaβ.ˈnam]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃäb.nǽm]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃäb.nǽm]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʃäb.nǽm]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʃäb.nǽm]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʃæb.nǽm]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʃäb.nǽm]

### Noun

شبنم • (šabnam) (plural شبنم‌ها (šabnam-hâ))
* dew
    Synonyms: بژم (bažm), ژاله (žâle)

#### Alternative forms

* شونم (šownam) (dialectal)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: şəbnəm
* → Bengali: শবনম (śobonom)
* → Chagatai: شَبْنَم
** Uyghur: شەبنەم (shebnem)
** Uzbek: shabnam
* → Gujarati: શબનમ (śabnam)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शबनम (śabnam)
    Urdu: شَبْنَم (śabnam)
* → Ottoman Turkish: شَبْنَم (şebnem)
** Turkish: şebnem
* → Pashto: شَبْنَم (šabnám)
* → Punjabi:
** Shahmukhi script: شَبْنَم (śabnam)
* → Sindhi: شَبِنَمِ (śabinami)

### Proper noun

شبنم • (šabnam)
* a female given name, Shabnam

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: Şəbnəm
* → Bengali: শবনম (śobonom)
* → Gujarati: શબનમ (śabnam)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शबनम (śabnam)
    Urdu: شَبْنَم (śabnam)
* → Ottoman Turkish: شَبْنَم (Şebnem)
** Turkish: Şebnem

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شبنم (šabnam).

### Noun

شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ਬਨਮ)
* dew

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “شبنم”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شبنم (šabnam).

### Noun

شَبِنَمِ • (śabinami) f (Devanagari शबिनमि)
* dew

### Further reading

* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “شَبِنَمِ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَبْنَم (šabnam). By surface analysis, شَب (śab, “night”) +‎ نَم (nam, “moisture”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʃəb.nəm/
* Rhymes: -əm

### Proper noun

شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Hindi spelling शबनम)
* a female given name, Shabnam, from Persian

#### Derived terms

* (Diminutives) شَبّو (śabbo)

### Noun

شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Hindi spelling शबनम)
* dew
    Synonyms: اوس (os), ژالَہ (źāla)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* S. W. Fallon (1879) “شبنم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 813
* Platts, John T. (1884) “شبنم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 721
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شبنم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 400
* “شبنم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* John Shakespear (1834) “شبنم”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
* “شبنم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.