إشبين

Mane (Îngilîzî)

  1. somebody who is adduced as a witness to a baptism, godfather, baptismal sponsor
  2. somebody who is adduced as a witness to a wedding, bridesman, groomsman, paranymph

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ʔiʃ.biːn/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫܰܘܫܒܺܝܢܳܐ (šawšəḇīnā), from Akkadian 𒋢𒊓𒁉𒉡 (/⁠susapinnu⁠/, “paranymph, friend of the bridegroom in a wedding ceremony”), also a foreign word, structure suggesting Anatolian, but strangely attested in Hittite as an Akkadogram.

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