# لبن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Semitic *laban-.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.ban/

#### Noun

لَبَن • (laban) m (plural أَلْبَان (ʔalbān) or لِبَان (libān))
* (uncountable, Standard Arabic and Egypt colloquial) milk
    Synonym: حَلِيب (ḥalīb)
    لَا تَأْكُلِ السَّمَكَ وَتَشْرَبَ ٱللَّبَنَ فِي آنٍ وَاحِدٍ.lā taʔkuli s-samaka wa-tašraba l-labana fī ʔānin wāḥidin.Do not eat fish and drink milk at the same time.
* (uncountable, Levantine, Iraq, Peninsula) coagulated sour milk; yogurt (often strained yogurt); “leban”
    Synonyms: زَبَادِيّ (zabādiyy) (the original Egyptian word formed from زِبْدَة (zibda, “butter”)), لَبَن رَائِب (laban rāʔib) (specified to avoid confusion), رَوْب (rawb) (strictly curdled milk), يُوغُورْت (yūḡūrt), مَاسْت (māst) (Classical Arabic), جُغْرَات ~ صُقْرَاط (juḡrāt ~ ṣuqrāṭ) (Classical Arabic)
* (uncountable, Kuwait, Morocco, Algeria) coagulated milk drink specifically (i.e. excluding yoghurt); yoghurt or buttermilk drink.
* اَلْأَلْبَان (al-ʔalbān): dairy products

##### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: لبن (laban)
* Gulf Arabic: لِبَن (liban)
* Hijazi Arabic: لبن (laban)
* Iraqi Arabic: لِبَن (liban)
* Moroccan Arabic: لبن (lban)
* South Levantine Arabic: لبن (laban)
* → Ottoman Turkish: لبن (leben)
** Turkish: leben

### Etymology 2.1

As Hebrew לְבֵנָה (ləḇenā́, “brick”) borrowed from Aramaic לְבִינְּתָּא (ləḇinṯā, ləḇittā) (written in Classical Syriac ܠܒܬܐ (ləḇettā)), from Akkadian 𒋞 (SIG$_4$ /⁠libittu⁠/), whence also Ugaritic 𐎍𐎁𐎐𐎚 (lbnt), from the root in Akkadian corresponding to ل ب ن (l b n), apparently the singulative in Arabic came first.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /libn/, /la.bin/

#### Noun

لِبْن or لَبِن • (libn or labin) m (collective, singulative لِبْنَة f (libna) or لَبِنَة (labina))
* bricks, adobes

##### Declension
### Etymology 2.2

Denominal verb of لَبِن (labin, “brick”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lab.ba.na/

#### Verb

لَبَّنَ • (labbana) II (non-past يُلَبِّنُ (yulabbinu), verbal noun تَلْبِين (talbīn))
* to make brick

##### Conjugation
### References

* “lbnh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 4–5
* Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 66

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لَبَن (laban).

### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) IPA: /ˈlɪ.bən/

### Noun

لبن • (liban) m
* (uncountable) leban, coagulated sour milk; yogurt drink

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لَبَن (laban).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.ban/

### Noun

لبن • (laban) m
* leban, coagulated sour milk, yogurt drink

#### Derived terms

* لَبَنِيَّة (labaniyya, “a popular dairy-based dessert in the Hijaz region”)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic لَبَن (laban, “milk”).

#### Noun

لبن • (leben)
* milk, a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals
    Synonyms: حلیب (halib), سوت (süt), شیر (şir)
* yogurt, leban, a milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process
    Synonym: یوغورت (yoğurt)

##### Derived terms

* لبنی (lebeni, “pertaining to milk”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: leben

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “leben1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2948
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “leben”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 651
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لبن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1074
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lac”, 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 898
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لبن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4147
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لبن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1624

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic لِبْن (libn, “bricks, adobes”).

#### Noun

لبن • (libn)
* mudbricks, adobes, unburnt bricks dried in the sun
    Synonym: كرپیچ (kerpiç)

#### Further reading

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Later”, 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 918
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لبن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4147
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لبن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1624

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لَبَن (laban).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.ban/, [ˈla.ban]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Noun

لبن • (lában) m
* leban, coagulated sour milk
* yogurt