عنکبوت

See also: عنكبوت

Persian

عنکبوت

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَنْكَبُوت (ʕankabūt). Displaced native جولا (jôlâ) in Iranian Persian.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔan.ka.ˈβuːt]

(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^?	ankaḇūt
Dari reading^?	ankabūt
Iranian reading^?	ankabut
Tajik reading^?	ankabüt

Noun


Dari	جولا
Iranian Persian	عنکبوت
Tajik	анкабӯт, тортанак

عَنْکَبوت • (ankabut) (plural عنکبوت‌ها (ankabut-hâ) or عناکب ('anâkeb) or عنکبوتان (ankabutân))

spider
Synonyms: (Dari) جولَا (jōlā), تارْتَنَک (târtanak)
- late 1400s, Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī, فاتحة الشباب‎:
  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 ğār 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 (ankabuti, “spiderlike; arachnid”)
مرد عنکبوتی (mard-e ankabuti)

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