Words Arabic Took In
stabulum
الإِصْطَبْل
iṣṭabl
Iṣṭabl: Abu 'Amr said it 'is not of the speech of the Arabs', Ibn Barri that it is foreign, taken up by the Arabs. The editor F. Abdurrahim traces it to Latin stabulum, a standing-place for beasts, and notes that English stable and French étable come from the same Latin word. The Arabic word and stable are siblings.
- Came
- From Latin
- Original meaning
- a standing-place, a stall
- Meaning in Arabic
- a stable
«الإصطبل موقف الدابّة… وقال أبو عمرو: الإصطبل ليس من كلام العرب.»
Al-Azhari (Tahdhib) calls it 'a standing-place for horses, a Syrian word'; al-Fayyumi reports it as Arabic, or said to be Arabised. Shamir listed it with ṣirāṭ among words where ṣ and ṭ meet because the ṣ was once s.
English stable and French étable did not pass through Arabic: both come from Latin stabulum, as F. Abdurrahim notes (al-Mu'arrab, p. 113) and the TLFi confirms.
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Sources
- ابن منظور، لسان العرب ١١/١٨
- الزبيديّ، تاج العروس ٢٧/٤٥٣: «أعجميّ تكلّمت به العرب»
- الأزهريّ، تهذيب اللغة ١٢/١٩١
- الجواليقيّ، المعرّب، تحقيق ف. عبد الرحيم، ص١١٢–١١٣
- TLFi (CNRTL): étable
- Wiktionary: stable
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