آبنوس

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾpnws /⁠abnūs⁠/), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj (“ebony”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaːb.ˈnuːs/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.nuːs]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.nuːs]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːb.nus]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːb.nuːs]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔb.nus]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ābnūs
Dari reading^?	ābnūs
Iranian reading^?	âbnus
Tajik reading^?	obnus

Audio (Iran): (file)

Noun

آبنوس • (ābnūs / âbnus) (Tajik spelling обнус)

ebony

Descendants

→ Arabic: أَبْنُوس (ʔabnūs), آبِنُوس (ʔābinūs), يَابَنُوس (yābanūs) — obsolete
- → Catalan: banús
- → Hebrew: יאבנוס, אבנוס (Medieval)
- → Spanish: ebanuz
- → Malay: abnus
- → Swahili: abunusi
→ Bengali: আবলুস (abolus)
→ Gujarati: અબનૂસ (abanūs), અબનૂરા (abanūrā)
→ Hindi: आबनूस (ābnūs)
→ Middle Armenian: ապանօս (apanōs)
- Armenian: աբանոս (abanos)
→ Ottoman Turkish: آبانوز (abanoz), آبنوس (abnus) — obsolete, ապանօզ (abanoz) — Armeno-Turkish
- Turkish: abanoz
- → Albanian: abanoz
- → Armenian: ապանօզ (apanōz)
- → Aromanian: abanozi
- → Bulgarian: абано́с (abanós)
- → Georgian: აბანოზი (abanozi)
- → Greek: αμπανόζι (ampanózi)
- → Macedonian: абонос (abonos)
- → Romanian: abanos
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: а̀бонос
  Latin script: àbonos
→ Uyghur: ئابنۇس (abnus)