sapun

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.

• IPA^(key): /saˈpuːn/

sapun m (collective, singulative sapuna, plural spapen or spajjen, paucal sapuniet)

1. soap

From Latin sapo, saponis, probably through the intermediate of Byzantine Greek σαπούνιον (sapoúnion). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

• IPA^(key): /sǎpuːn/
• Hyphenation: sa‧pun

sàpūn m (Cyrillic spelling са̀пӯн)

1. soap

• “sapun”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024