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
  • 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
Declension of sapun
singular plural
nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) sapuni
genitive sapúna sapuna
dative sapunu sapunima
accusative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) sapune
vocative sapune sapuni
locative sapunu sapunima
instrumental sapunom sapunima

References
  • “sapun” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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