# دبوس
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* دَبُّوز (dabbūz), دَبُّوسَة (dabbūsa), دَبُّوزَة (dabbūza)

### Etymology

A pre-Mamluk Turkic borrowing, from a cognate of Ottoman Turkish طوپوز (topuz, “iron mace”). The name of a pin may have additional connection to the root د ب ب (d b b) related to crawling, pushing in, compare also دَرْبَسَ (darbasa, “to shut”), and possibly, too, the name stuck owing to دِبْس (dibs, “molasses”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dab.buːs/

### Noun

دَبُّوس • (dabbūs) m (plural دَبَابِيس (dabābīs))
* pin
* (before that) peg, plug, rod, cudgel, any oblong instrument driven into or onto something
* (figurative) penis
    Synonyms: قَضِيب (qaḍīb), ذَكَر (ḏakar), زُبّ (zubb), أَيْر (ʔayr), آلَة (ʔāla)
* (originally now historical) iron mace
* (regional) government informant

#### Derived terms

* دَبَّاسَة (dabbāsa, “stapler”)
* دَبَّسَ (dabbasa, verb)
* دَبُّوسِيّ (dabbūsiyy, adjective)

#### Descendants

* → Malay: dabus
** Indonesian: debus

### 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 450, guesses as “probable” instead a Middle Iranian compound of Proto-Iranian *dwáH (“two”) and Proto-Iranian *baHjúš (“arm”) because of it being a two-handed weapon; the same compound would have engendered دَبَّاس (dabbās), دِبَاسَاء (dibāsāʔ, “praying mantis”) because of that animal’s forelegs.
* Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 173b, as later.
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دبوس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 423a
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “دبوس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 6a
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “دبوس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 667a
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “دبوس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 840a
* Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern‎, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 117
* Procházka, Stephan (2004) “The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon”, in Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 199
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “دبوس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 353b
* Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 306 Nr. 39

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic دَبُّوس (dabbūs).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dab.buːs/

### Noun

دبوس • (dabbūs) m (plural دَبَابِيس (dabābīs))
* pin
* (slang) snitch