Avicenna

English

Alternative forms

Ibn Sina, Ibn Sīnā
Pur Sina, Pursina

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌævɪˈsenə/

Proper noun

Avicenna

Latinized name of Ibn Sina, a Persian polymath

Derived terms

Derived terms

Avicennism
avicennite

Translations

a Persian polymath

Arabic: اِبْن سِينَا‎ m (ibn sīnā)
Armenian: Ավիցեննա (Avicʿenna)
Catalan: Avicenna m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 伊本·西那 (Yīběn-Xinà), 阿維森納 (zh), 阿维森纳 (zh) (Āwéisēnnà)
French: Avicenne (fr) m
German: Avicenna m

Italian: Avicenna m
Japanese: イブン・スィーナー (Ibun-Sīnā), アウィケンナ (Avikenna)
Persian: پور سینا‎ (Pūr-e Sīnā), ابن سینا‎ (Ebn-e Sīnā)
Russian: Ибн Си́на m (Ibn Sína), Авице́нна m (Avicénna)
Spanish: Avicena m
Turkish: İbn-i Sina
Uyghur: ئىبىن سىنا‎ (ibin sina)

Italian

miniatura di Avicenna — Avicenna in a miniature

Etymology

From a Latinization of Persian (Ibn Sīnā).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.viˈt͡ʃɛn.na/, [äviˈt͡ʃɛn̺n̺ä]
Rhymes: -ɛnna
Stress: Avicènna
Hyphenation: A‧vi‧cen‧na

Proper noun

Avicenna m

Avicenna (Persian polymath, 980 ca. CE–1037 CE)
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, lines 140–144, page 64:
  […] e vidi Orfeo, ¶ Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale; ¶ Eulide geomètra e Tolomeo, ¶ Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno, ¶ Averoìs che ’l gran comento feo.
  and Orpheus saw I, Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca, Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and ⁠Galen, and Averroes, who the great Comment made.

Derived terms

Further reading

Avicenna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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