# صابون
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Aramaic צַפּוֹן / ܨܦܘܢ (ṣappōn), from Ancient Greek σάπων (sápōn), from Latin sāpōnem, accusative of sāpō, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤaː.buːn/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

صَابُون • (ṣābūn) m
* (uncountable) soap

#### Derived terms

* صَابُونَة sg (ṣābūna)

#### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: صابونة (ṣabūna)
* Maltese: sapun (partly)
* → Abaza: сабын (sabən)
* → Abkhaz: асапын (asapʼən)
* → Amharic: ሳሙና (samuna), ሳቡና (sabuna)
* → Azerbaijani: sabun
* → Bashkir: һабын (habın)
* → Buryat: саван (savan)
* → Central Kurdish: سابون (sabun)
* → Chechen: саба (saba)
* → Chuvash: супӑнь (sup̬ănʹ)
* → Classical Persian: صابون (sābūn)
** → Assamese: চাবোন (sabün)
** → Bengali: সাবান (śaban)
** → Bodo (India): साबोन (sabwn)
** → Gujarati: સાબુ (sābu)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: साबुन (sābun), साबन (sāban)
    Urdu: صابن (sābun)
** → Kannada: ಸಾಬೂನು (sābūnu)
** → Khmer: សាប៊ូ (saabuu)
** →? Malay: sabun
*** Iban: sabun
*** Indonesian: sabun
*** → Balinese: ᬲᬩᬸᬦ᭄ (sabun)
*** → Lun Bawang: sabun
*** → Makasar: sabung
**** → Dhuwal: jaabu
*** → Hainanese: 差文
*** →? Hokkien: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
**** → Amis: safon
**** → Kavalan: sabun
**** → Puyuma: sabun
**** → Tsou: savungu
*** → Sundanese: sabun
*** → Teochew: 雪文 (sab$^4$ bhung$^5$)
**** → Hakka: 雪文 (Singkawang, Bangkok Jiexi Hakka)
** → Nepali: सावुन (sāwuna)
** → Old Marathi: साबण (sābaṇa)
*** Marathi: साबण (sābaṇ)
** → Odia: ସାବୁନ (sābuna)
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸਾਬਣ (sābaṇ), ਸਬੂਣ (sabūṇ)
    Shahmukhi script: صابݨ (sābaṇ)
** → Rakhine: သပုန်
** → Sinhalese: සබන් (saban)
** → Telugu: సబ్బు (sabbu)
** → Thai: สบู่ (sà-bùu)
*** → Lao: ສະບູ່ (sa bū)
* → Crimean Tatar: sabun
* → Dargwa: сапун (sapun)
* → Dhivehi: ސައިބޯނި (saibōni)
* → Gagauz: sabun
* → Hausa: sabulu
** → Tyap: cafulu
* → Ingush: сапа (sapa)
* → Javanese: sabun
* → Kalmyk: савң (savñ)
* → Karachay-Balkar: сапын (sapın)
* → Karaim: сабун (sabun)
* → Karakalpak: сабын (sabın)
* → Kavalan: sabun
* → Kazakh: сабын (sabyn)
* → Kumyk: сапун (sapun)
* → Kyrgyz: самын (samın)
* → Maguindanao: sabun
* →? Malay: sabun
** Iban: sabun
** Indonesian: sabun
** → Balinese: ᬲᬩᬸᬦ᭄ (sabun)
** → Lun Bawang: sabun
** → Makasar: sabung
*** → Dhuwal: jaabu
** → Hainanese: 差文
** →? Hokkien: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
*** → Amis: safon
*** → Kavalan: sabun
*** → Puyuma: sabun
*** → Tsou: savungu
** → Sundanese: sabun
** → Teochew: 雪文 (sab$^4$ bhung$^5$)
*** → Hakka: 雪文 (Singkawang, Bangkok Jiexi Hakka)
* → Mongolian: саван (savan)
* → Nogai: сабын (sabın)
* → Northern Kurdish: sabûn
* → Northern Luri: ساوی (sāwi)
* → Pashto: سابون (sābūn)
* → Somali: saabuun
* → Southern Altai: самын (samïn)
* → Swahili: sabuni
** → Gusii: esabuni
** → Kikuyu: thabuni
** → Kongo: sabuni
** → Lingala: sabúni
** → Luganda: ssabbuuni
** → Luhya: esabuni
** → Sukuma: sabuni
** → Maore Comorian: sabuni
** → Ngazidja Comorian: saɓuni
** → Rwanda-Rundi: isabune
* → Tatar: сабын (sabın)
** → Erzya: сапонь (sapoń)
** → Moksha: сапонь (sapoń)
** → Shor: сабын
* → Tigre: ሳቡን (sabun)
* → Tigrinya: ሳሙና (samuna)
* → Turkish: sabun
** → Adyghe: сабын (sabən)
** → Kabardian: сабын (sabən)
** → Khakas: сабын (sabın)
* → Turkmen: sabyn
* → Tuvan: саваң (savañ)
* → Uzbek: sovun
* → Western Mari: шавынь (šavyń)

### References

* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 291

## Azerbaijani
### Noun

صابون (sabun) (definite accusative صابونو, plural صابونلار)
* Arabic spelling of sabun (“soap”)

#### Declension
## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤaː.buːn/

### Noun

صابون • (ṣābūn) m (collective, singulative صابونة f (ṣābūna), plural صابونات (ṣābūnāt))
* (uncountable) soap

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn), ultimately from Latin sāpō (“soap”).

### Noun

صابون • (sabun)
* soap, a detergent substance used for cleaning

#### Derived terms

* صابون اوتی (sabun otu, “soapwort”)
* صابون طاشی (sabun taşı, “soapstone”)
* صابونجی (sabuncu, “soapmaker”)
* صابونخانه (sabunhane, “soapery”)
* صابونلامق (sabunlamak, “to soap”)
* صابونلامه (sabunlama, “soaping”)
* صابونلاندرمق (sabunlandirmak, “to make or let become soap”)
* صابونلانمق (sabunlanmak, “to be soaped”)
* صابونی (sabuni, “pertaining to soap”)
* صابونیه (sabuniye, “kind of Turkish dessert”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: sabun
** → Adyghe: сабын (sabən)
** → Kabardian: сабын (sabən)
** → Khakas: сабын (sabın)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sabun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3998
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صابون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 293b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صابون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 743
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sapo”, 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 1510
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صابون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2906
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sabun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صابون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150

## Persian
### Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [sɑː.ˈβuːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sɑː.búːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sɑː.búːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sɑː.búːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sɔː.bún]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sɒː.búːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sɔ.bún]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

صابون • (sâbun) (plural صابون‌ها (sâbun-hâ))
* soap

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: চাবোন (sabün)
* → Bengali: সাবান (śaban)
* → Bodo (India): साबोन (sabwn)
* → Gujarati: સાબુ (sābu)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: साबुन (sābun), साबन (sāban)
    Urdu: صابن (sābun)
* → Kannada: ಸಾಬೂನು (sābūnu)
* → Khmer: សាប៊ូ (saabuu)
* →? Malay: sabun
** Iban: sabun
** Indonesian: sabun
** → Balinese: ᬲᬩᬸᬦ᭄ (sabun)
** → Lun Bawang: sabun
** → Makasar: sabung
*** → Dhuwal: jaabu
** → Hainanese: 差文
** →? Hokkien: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
*** → Amis: safon
*** → Kavalan: sabun
*** → Puyuma: sabun
*** → Tsou: savungu
** → Sundanese: sabun
** → Teochew: 雪文 (sab$^4$ bhung$^5$)
*** → Hakka: 雪文 (Singkawang, Bangkok Jiexi Hakka)
* → Nepali: सावुन (sāwuna)
* → Old Marathi: साबण (sābaṇa)
** Marathi: साबण (sābaṇ)
* → Odia: ସାବୁନ (sābuna)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸਾਬਣ (sābaṇ), ਸਬੂਣ (sabūṇ)
    Shahmukhi script: صابݨ (sābaṇ)
* → Rakhine: သပုန်
* → Sinhalese: සබන් (saban)
* → Telugu: సబ్బు (sabbu)
* → Thai: สบู่ (sà-bùu)
** → Lao: ສະບູ່ (sa bū)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤaː.buːn/, [sˤɑˈbuːn]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Noun

صابون • (ṣābūn) m (collective, singulative صابونة f (ṣābūne), paucal صابونات (ṣābūnāt))
* (uncountable) soap
    غسّل إيديك بالصابون! ― ḡassel ʔīdēk biṣ-ṣābūn! ― Wash your hands with soap!