dnub

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdnuːp/

Etymology 1

Root
d-n-b
3 terms

From Arabic ذُنُوب (ḏunūb), plural of ذَنْب (ḏanb, “sin, sinful or blameworthy act, blame, moral guilt”). The Arabic plural was reanalysed as a singular, perhaps due to the notion, chiefly (though not exclusively) Christian, of sin as a continuing state, rather than only a repeatable act. For this “state of sin”, Arabic uses خَطِيئة (ḵaṭīʔa) or less often مَعْصِية (maʕṣiya).

Noun

dnub m (plural dnubiet or dnubijiet)

  1. sin
  2. moral guilt

Etymology 2

See the lemma.

Noun

dnub

  1. plural of denb (“tail”)
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