شبنم
Azerbaijani
Noun
شبنم
- Arabic spelling of şəbnəm
Proper noun
شبنم
- Arabic spelling of Şəbnəm
Chagatai
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).
Noun
شَبْنَم (transliteration needed)
Descendants
- Uyghur: شەبنەم (shebnem)
- Uzbek: shabnam
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).
Noun
شَبْنَم • (şebnem)
Descendants
- Turkish: şebnem
Proper noun
شَبْنَم • (Şebnem)
- a female given name, Şebnem, Shebnem, or Shabnam
Descendants
- Turkish: Şebnem
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شبنم (šabnam).
Noun
شَبْنَم • (šabnám) m
Persian
Etymology
From شب (šab, “night”) + نم (nam, “moisture, humidity”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ʃab.ˈnam/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʃäb.nǽm]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʃæb.nǽm]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʃäb.nǽm]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | šabnam |
| Dari reading? | šabnam |
| Iranian reading? | šabnam |
| Tajik reading? | šabnam |
Noun
| Dari | شبنم |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | шабнам |
شبنم • (šabnam) (plural شبنمها)
- dew
- 1932, محمد اقبال [Muhammad Iqbāl], “Tour of the city of Maghadin”, in Arthur J. Arberry, transl., جاویدنامه [Jāvīdnāma, Book of Eternity][1]:
- شبنمی؟ افتندگی تقدیر تست
قلزمی؟ پایندگی تقدیر تست- šabnam-ē? uftandigī taqdīr-i tu-st
qulzum-ē? pāyandigī taqdīr-i tu-st - Are you a dew-drop? Your destiny is to perish;
are you an ocean? Your destiny is to endure.
- šabnam-ē? uftandigī taqdīr-i tu-st
Alternative forms
- شونم (šownam) (dialectal)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: şəbnəm
- → Bengali: শবনম (śobonom)
- → Chagatai: شَبْنَم
- Uyghur: شەبنەم (shebnem)
- Uzbek: shabnam
- → Gujarati: શબનમ (śabnam)
- → Hindustani:
- → Ottoman Turkish: شَبْنَم (şebnem)
- Turkish: şebnem
- → Pashto: شَبْنَم (šabnám)
- → Punjabi:
- Shahmukhi script: شَبْنَم (śabnam)
- → Sindhi: شَبِنَمِ (śabinami)
Proper noun
| Dari | شبنم |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | Шабнам |
شبنم • (šabnam)
- a female given name, Shabnam
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: Şəbnəm
- → Bengali: শবনম (śobonom)
- → Gujarati: શબનમ (śabnam)
- → Hindustani:
- → Ottoman Turkish: شَبْنَم (Şebnem)
- Turkish: Şebnem
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian شبنم (šabnam).
Noun
شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ਬਨਮ)
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “شبنم”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
Sindhi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian شبنم (šabnam).
Noun
شَبِنَمِ • (śabinami) f (Devanagari शबिनमि)
Further reading
- Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “شَبِنَمِ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian شَبْنَم (šabnam). By surface analysis, شَب (śab, “night”) + نَم (nam, “moisture”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʃəb.nəm/
- Rhymes: -əm
Proper noun
شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Hindi spelling शबनम)
- a female given name, Shabnam, from Persian
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | شَبْنَم (śabnam) | شَبْنَمیں (śabnamẽ) |
| oblique | شَبْنَم (śabnam) | شَبْنَموں (śabnamõ) |
| vocative | شَبْنَم (śabnam) | شَبْنَمو (śabnamo) |
Derived terms
- (Diminutives) شَبّو (śabbo)
Noun
شَبْنَم • (śabnam) f (Hindi spelling शबनम)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | شَبْنَم (śabnam) | شَبْنَمیں (śabnamẽ) |
| oblique | شَبْنَم (śabnam) | شَبْنَموں (śabnamõ) |
| vocative | شَبْنَم (śabnam) | شَبْنَمو (śabnamo) |
Further reading
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “شبنم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 813
- Platts, John T. (1884) “شبنم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 721
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شبنم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 400
- “شبنم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- John Shakespear (1834) “شبنم”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- “شبنم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.