𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕

Punic

Alternative forms

• *𐤀𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕 (*ʾlbnt /⁠əlḇūnaṯ⁠/)

Etymology

Cognate to Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (ləḇōnā), Arabic لُبَان (lubān), Ancient Greek λῐ́βᾰνος (líbanos), all meaning “frankincense”. From the same root as 𐤋𐤁𐤍 (lbn /⁠laban⁠/, “white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lvuːnaθ/, /əlvuːnaθ/

Noun

𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕 (lbnt /lḇūnaṯ/) f (plural 𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤅𐤕 (lbnwt /⁠lḇūnūṯ⁠/))

1. frankincense
   • 1962, Herbert Donner, Wolfgang Röllig, Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften (overall work in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, lines B 6 of number 76 on page 20, from Carthage, which is reproduced No. 241 line 14 in Julius Euting’s 1883 Sammlung der Carthagischen Inschriften, also interpreted and transcribed by Joseph Derenbourg Sur les offrandes de prémices in Journal asiatique February–March 1874 pages 204–227:

     𐤅𐤒𐤈𐤓𐤕 𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤕 𐤃𐤒𐤕

     wqṭrt lbnt dqt

     and drops of frankincense in a finely ground state

Descendants

• → Demotic: ꜣlbwnṱ
  • Old Coptic: ⲁⲗⲃⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩⲧ (albounout)

References

• Steiner, Richard C. (2001) “Albounout “Frankincense” and Alsounalph “Oxtongue”: Phoenician-Punic Botanical Terms with Prothetic Vowels from an Egyptian Papyrus and a Byzantine Codex”, in Orientalia‎^[1], volume 70, number 1, pages 97–103