sapun

See also: săpun

Maltese

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin sāpō, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ. The word was probably inherited from Arabic صَابُون (ṣābūn), which is clearly old enough to have passed into Maltese. The -p- does of course betray influence by cognate Sicilian sapuni, but does not prove borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈpuːn/

Noun

sapun m (collective, singulative sapuna, plural spapen or spajjen, paucal sapuniet)

1. soap

Derived terms

• bużżieqa tas-sapun
• sapun tal-misk

 

Related terms

• sapnatura
• sapunetta
• sapuniera
• ssapna (insapna)

 

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin sapo, saponis, probably through the intermediate of Byzantine Greek σαπούνιον (sapoúnion). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎpuːn/
• Hyphenation: sa‧pun

Noun

sàpūn m (Cyrillic spelling са̀пӯн)

1. soap

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	sàpūn	sapuni
genitive	sapúna	sapuna
dative	sapunu	sapunima
accusative	sapun	sapune
vocative	sapune	sapuni
locative	sapunu	sapunima
instrumental	sapunom	sapunima

Declension of sapun

References

• “sapun”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024