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دَبُّوس
pin (a straight pin, safety pin, or push-pin) /dabˈbuːs/
nounB2#4363 most common
Also: peg/bolt, mace or club (archaic, classical usage)
Example sentences
هٰذا دَبُّوسٌ صَغِيرٌ.
This is a small pin.
وَضَعَتْ أُمِّي الدَّبُّوسَ عَلَى الطَّاوِلَةِ.
My mother put the pin on the table.
اِسْتَخْدَمْتُ دَبُّوساً لِتَثْبِيتِ الوَرَقَةِ عَلَى الحَائِطِ.
I used a pin to fix the paper to the wall.
سَقَطَتِ الدَّبَابِيسُ مِنَ الصُّنْدُوقِ عَلَى الأَرْضِ.
The pins fell out of the box onto the floor.
يَحْتَفِظُ الخَيَّاطُ بِمَجْمُوعَةٍ مِنَ الدَّبَابِيسِ المُلَوَّنَةِ فِي وِسَادَةٍ صَغِيرَةٍ.
The tailor keeps a collection of colored pins in a small pincushion.
يُسْتَخْدَمُ الدَّبُّوسُ المَعْدِنِيُّ الرَّفِيعُ لِتَثْبِيتِ الأَقْمِشَةِ قَبْلَ الخِيَاطَةِ، وَهُوَ أَدَاةٌ لَا يَسْتَغْنِي عَنْهَا أَيُّ خَيَّاطٍ مُحْتَرِفٍ.
The thin metal pin is used to hold fabric in place before sewing, and no professional tailor can do without it.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَبُّوسٌ | دَبَابِيسُ |
| Genitive | دَبُّوسٍ | دَبَابِيسَ |
| Accusative | دَبُّوساً | دَبَابِيسَ |
| Vocative | يَا دَبُّوسُ | يَا دَبَابِيسُ |
Word family
دَبَابِيسpins (plural)
دَبَّسَto staple, to pin together
دَبَّاسَةstapler
دَبُّوس أَمَانsafety pin
Etymology
دَبُّوس entered Arabic as a loanword from Persian, where it originally denoted a mace or club used as a weapon. Classical Arabic dictionaries such as Lisan al-Arab still record this martial sense. Over time the meaning narrowed in everyday usage to a small pointed metal object, the modern pin, likely by analogy to the mace's shaft and head shrinking down to a slender spike with a rounded top.
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