olibanum

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发音

UK /ɒˈlɪbənəm/
其它

词形变化

olibanums 复数 olibanums

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

thus frankincense

上位词 1

gum

词源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin olibanum, from Latin oleum libani, the first word meaning oil and the second from Ancient Greek λίβανος (líbanos, “frankincense (Boswellia sacra)”), from a Semitic source, compare Proto-Semitic *laban- (“white”). Cognate with Biblical Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic لبان (lubān, “frankincense”). (Compare benzoin for a similar process of metanalysis.) Doublet of oliban.

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