عنکبوت

See also: عنكبوت

Persian

Regional synonyms of "spider"
Dari	جولا
Iranian Persian	عنکبوت
Tajik	анкабӯт, тортанак

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَنْكَبُوت (ʕankabūt). Displaced native جولا (jōlā / julâ) in Iranian Persian.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔan.ka.ˈbuːt/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.búːt̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.búːt̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.bút̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæɲ.kʰʲæ.búːt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäŋ.kʰä.bɵ́t̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ankabūt
Dari reading^?	ankabūt
Iranian reading^?	ankabut
Tajik reading^?	ankabüt

Noun

عنکبوت • (ankabūt / ankabut) (plural عنکبوت‌ها (ankabūt-hā / ankabut-hâ), or عناکب (anākib / anâkeb), or عنکبوتان (ankabūtān / ankabutân), Tajik spelling анкабӯт)

spider
Synonyms: (Dari) جولَا (jōlā), تارْتَنَک (târtanak)
- late 1400s, Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī, فاتحة الشباب‎^[1]:
  شد دو سه تاری که عنکبوت تنیدش
  بر در آن غار پرده دار محمد
  šud du si tārē ki ankabūt tanīd-aš
  bar dar-i ān ġār parda dār-i muhammad
  The two or three threads that the spider wove for him
  On the door of the cave, were the veil of Muhammad.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

عنکبوتی (ankabūtī / ankabuti, “spiderlike; arachnid”)
مرد عنکبوتی (mard-i ankabūtī / mard-e ankabuti)