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صابُون
soap /sˤaːˈbuːn/
nounB2#4322 most common
Example sentences
الصابونُ أبيضُ.
The soap is white.
أغسلُ يدَيَّ بالصابونِ قبلَ الأكلِ.
I wash my hands with soap before eating.
اشترتْ أمي صابونةً جديدةً للحمّامِ.
My mother bought a new bar of soap for the bathroom.
تُفضّلُ الشركاتُ استخدامَ الصابونِ الطبيعيِّ المصنوعِ من زيتِ الزيتونِ.
Companies prefer using natural soap made from olive oil.
انزلقَ الطفلُ على قطعةِ صابونٍ سقطتْ على أرضيةِ الحمّامِ المبلّلةِ.
The child slipped on a piece of soap that had fallen on the wet bathroom floor.
يُعزى الانخفاضُ الملحوظُ في معدلاتِ الإصابةِ بالأمراضِ المعديةِ جزئيًّا إلى انتشارِ استعمالِ الصابونِ في غسلِ اليدين.
The noticeable decline in infectious disease rates is partly attributed to the widespread use of soap in handwashing.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صابونٌ | صابوناتٌ |
| Genitive | صابونٍ | صابوناتٍ |
| Accusative | صابونًا | صابوناتٍ |
| Vocative | يا صابونُ | يا صابوناتُ |
Word family
صابونةa bar or piece of soap
صابونيsoapy, soap-colored
صبّانsoap maker or seller
مصبنةsoap factory
تصبّنto saponify, turn into soap
Etymology
Arabic صابون is a loanword, most likely borrowed through Aramaic from Latin sapo, the same word that gave English 'soap' and French 'savon'. Latin sapo itself is thought to come from a Germanic word for a reddish hair dye or pomade made from fat and ash. Once in Arabic, the word settled into the noun pattern فاعول and produced its own family of derived forms, such as صابونة for a single bar and مصبنة for a soap factory.
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