إبزيم

See also: ابزیم

Arabic

Alternative forms

• إِبْزَام (ʔibzām), إِبْزِين (ʔibzīn)

Etymology

Superficially of the root ب ز م (b-z-m), however a borrowing of Persian ابزین (abzin), اوزین (avzin, “ring; buckle”), which is maybe a suffixation of the same word as بز (baz, “high ground, hill, summit of a mountain”), and easily بَزِيم (bazīm, “a shoot of a plant or frond used to bind vegetable bundles and the bundle itself”), وَزِيم (wazīm, “bundle of vegetables”) are all the same word rather via a meaning of binding or surrounding, then meanings بَزَمَ (bazama, “to take with two fingers”) denominal. Also in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic אבזיינא (ʾaḇzyēnā), אפזיינא (ʾap̄zyēnā, “buckle”), בזיינא (bazyēnā, “buckle, clasp”), Jewish Neo-Aramaic אבזונא (ʾaḇzūnā), Northern Kurdish avzûm, avzûn (“buckle”), Central Kurdish ئاوزوونە (awzûne), ئاوزینە (awzîne, “buckle”), Georgian აბზინდა (abzinda, “buckle”), and in the Armenian invented language Ṙuštuni աբզէդոն (abzēdon, “girdle”). The sound change of trailing ـنٌ (-nun) to ـمٌ (-mun) having happened in Arabic is evidenced by مِيجَم (mījam, “fuller’s beetle”) and كَرْزَم (karzam, “one-sided axe”), see their forms on their pages.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔib.ziːm/

Noun

إِبْزِيم • (ʔibzīm) m (plural إِبْزِيمَات (ʔibzīmāt) or أَبَازِيم (ʔabāzīm))

1. clasp, buckle (of a belt or shoe or surcingle etc.)

Declension

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِبْزِيم ʔibzīm	الْإِبْزِيم al-ʔibzīm	إِبْزِيم ʔibzīm
Nominative	إِبْزِيمٌ ʔibzīmun	الْإِبْزِيمُ al-ʔibzīmu	إِبْزِيمُ ʔibzīmu
Accusative	إِبْزِيمًا ʔibzīman	الْإِبْزِيمَ al-ʔibzīma	إِبْزِيمَ ʔibzīma
Genitive	إِبْزِيمٍ ʔibzīmin	الْإِبْزِيمِ al-ʔibzīmi	إِبْزِيمِ ʔibzīmi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِبْزِيمَيْن ʔibzīmayn	الْإِبْزِيمَيْن al-ʔibzīmayn	إِبْزِيمَيْ ʔibzīmay
Nominative	إِبْزِيمَانِ ʔibzīmāni	الْإِبْزِيمَانِ al-ʔibzīmāni	إِبْزِيمَا ʔibzīmā
Accusative	إِبْزِيمَيْنِ ʔibzīmayni	الْإِبْزِيمَيْنِ al-ʔibzīmayni	إِبْزِيمَيْ ʔibzīmay
Genitive	إِبْزِيمَيْنِ ʔibzīmayni	الْإِبْزِيمَيْنِ al-ʔibzīmayni	إِبْزِيمَيْ ʔibzīmay
Plural	sound feminine plural‎; basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِبْزِيمَات‎; أَبَازِيم ʔibzīmāt‎; ʔabāzīm	الْإِبْزِيمَات‎; الْأَبَازِيم al-ʔibzīmāt‎; al-ʔabāzīm	إِبْزِيمَات‎; أَبَازِيم ʔibzīmāt‎; ʔabāzīm
Nominative	إِبْزِيمَاتٌ‎; أَبَازِيمُ ʔibzīmātun‎; ʔabāzīmu	الْإِبْزِيمَاتُ‎; الْأَبَازِيمُ al-ʔibzīmātu‎; al-ʔabāzīmu	إِبْزِيمَاتُ‎; أَبَازِيمُ ʔibzīmātu‎; ʔabāzīmu
Accusative	إِبْزِيمَاتٍ‎; أَبَازِيمَ ʔibzīmātin‎; ʔabāzīma	الْإِبْزِيمَاتِ‎; الْأَبَازِيمَ al-ʔibzīmāti‎; al-ʔabāzīma	إِبْزِيمَاتِ‎; أَبَازِيمَ ʔibzīmāti‎; ʔabāzīma
Genitive	إِبْزِيمَاتٍ‎; أَبَازِيمَ ʔibzīmātin‎; ʔabāzīma	الْإِبْزِيمَاتِ‎; الْأَبَازِيمِ al-ʔibzīmāti‎; al-ʔabāzīmi	إِبْزِيمَاتِ‎; أَبَازِيمِ ʔibzīmāti‎; ʔabāzīmi

Declension of noun إِبْزِيم (ʔibzīm)

Descendants

• → Persian: ابزیم (abzim)
• → Hebrew: אבזם (avzam)

References

• “ˀbzyynˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Landberg, Carlo, editor (1901), Études sur les dialectes de l'Arabie méridionale. Prémier volume. Ḥaḍramoût‎ (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 262
• Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Freiherr von (1854) Das Pferd bei den Arabern (in German), Wien: Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, page 90 in a Sonderdruck equalling 198 of volume 7 of the Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Russell, James R. (2012) “Armenian secret and invented languages and argots”, in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana‎, volume 8, number 3, page 653 of 602–684
• Sokoloff, Michael (2002) “אבזיינא”, in A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 74b