اليابان

From Dutch Japan, from Malay Jepang, from Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún).

• IPA^(key): /al.jaː.baːn/

الْيَابَان • (al-yābān) f

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)

   سِيَاحَةُ ٱلْيَابَانِ تَتَضَمَّنُ مَزِيجًا مُثِيرًا مِنَ ٱلثَّقَافَةِ ٱلْقَدِيمَةِ وَٱلْحَدِيثَةِ.

   siyāḥatu l-yābāni tataḍammanu mazījan muṯīran mina ṯ-ṯaqāfati l-qadīmati wal-ḥadīṯati.

   Tourism in Japan includes an exciting blend of ancient and modern culture.

• يَابَانِيّ (yābāniyy)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “يابان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic اليَابَان (al-yābān), from Dutch Japan, from Malay Jepang, from Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún).

The emphatic ب (ḅ) is likely by association with the emphatics of إِلْمَانْيَا (ʔilṃānya, “Germany”), إِسْبَانْيا (ʔisṗānya, “Spain”), and, presumably the original, إِيطَالْيَا (ʔiṭālya, “Italy”). In all cases, the emphasis reinforces the pronunciation of the following ا (ā) as a low back [ɑː], which, in the case of إِسْبَانْيا (ʔisṗānya, “Spain”) and إِيطَالْيَا (ʔiṭālya, “Italy”), better matches the original languages' /a/ than other allophones of North Levantine Arabic ا (ā).

• IPA^(key): /l-ja(ː).ˈbˤaːn/, [l̩jɑ(ː)ˈbˤɑːn]

اليابان • (l-yaḅān, l-yāḅān) m

1. Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)