אבן

אבן • (transliteration needed) m (plural אבנא (ʾabnāʾ) or בנון (banūna))

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of اِبْن (ibn, “son”)‎‎
   • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎^[1], Exodus 1:1:

     הדׄה אסמא בני אסראיל אלדאכׄלין אלי מצר מע יעקוב רגׄל ואלה דכׄלו׃

     hāḏihi ʾasmāʾu banī ʾisrāʾīla d-dāḵilīna ʾilā miṣra maʿa yaʿqūba rajulun waʾilluhu daḵalū.

     These are the names of the sons of Israel entering Egypt. With Jacob, man and his kin entered:

From Proto-Semitic *ʾabn-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʾabun-.

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔabn/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔɛ.vɛn/, [ˈʔɛː.vɛn]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔa.van/, [ˈʔæː.væn]
• (Iraqi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔe.ben/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)e.ben/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ɛ.vɛn/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)e.ven/

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אֶבֶן • (éven) f (plural indefinite אֲבָנִים, plural construct אַבְנֵי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. (countable, geology) stone (a piece of such material: a rock or a pebble)
2. gem
3. (Biblical Hebrew) motionless body, paralyzed (see 1 Samuel 25:37)

• (gem): אֶבֶן יְקָרָה (éven y'kará)

• אֶבֶן הַחֲכָמִים (éven ha-khakhamím)
• אֶבֶן הָרֹאשָׁה (éven haroshá)
• אֶבֶן מַשְׁחֶזֶת (éven mashkhézet)
• אַבְנָן (avnán)

• H68 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

From Arabic اِبْن (ibn).

אִבְּן • (ibn) m (no plural forms, singular construct אִבְּן־) (singular only, construct only)

1. (used in names) ibn