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زَبُون
customer /zaˈbuːn/
nounB1#1550 most common
Also: client, patron
Example sentences
هَذَا زَبُون.
This is a customer.
الزَّبُون هُنَا.
The customer is here.
الزَّبُون يُرِيد قَهْوَة.
The customer wants coffee.
عَامَلَ البَائِع الزَّبُون بِاحْتِرَام.
The seller treated the customer with respect.
الزَّبُون دَائِماً عَلَى حَقّ، كَمَا يَقُول المَثَل.
The customer is always right, as the saying goes.
فَقَدَ المَتْجَر العَدِيد مِن زَبَائِنه بِسَبَب ارْتِفَاع الأَسْعَار.
The store lost many of its customers because prices rose.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | زَبُونٌ | زَبَائِنُ |
| Genitive | زَبُونٍ | زَبَائِنَ |
| Accusative | زَبُوناً | زَبَائِنَ |
| Vocative | يَا زَبُونُ | يَا زَبَائِنُ |
Word family
زَبَائِنcustomers
زَبُونَةfemale customer
زَبَنَto push, to repel
زَبَانِيَةthose who shove; hell's guards
Etymology
The root ز-ب-ن (z-b-n) in classical Arabic carries the sense of pushing or shoving. The commercial meaning, a person who comes to buy, is a later development and is often traced to trade contact, with some scholars proposing a Persian source (zabūn). The everyday sense of customer is now standard across Modern Standard Arabic and the dialects.
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