Talk:جلبان

, I may have said this already somewhere, but glosses this as "leather sheath or sack for sword, knife, scourge etc." and together with jirrubān, jurrubān, jurbān, jirāb derives from the Iranian source of. --Vahag (talk) 22:57, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The form-meaning combinations he refers to are probably very obscure (which he couldn’t have known). I don’t find it for this page’s form and it probably does not belong here etymologically. Steingass ar-en has (obscure, I haven’t found from where he has it), Persian has  (unobscure enough to be a translation of scabbard). These terms will be variants within the family of  (see its comparisons), so you have to separate your meaning “pocket” in  as some kind of corruption/later confusion with variants you will have to find or suppose. Fittingly the r-form,  is given as “1. scabbard 2. belt 3. hem, collar”, with Freytag and Kazimirski deriving only the 3rd meaning from Persian.
 * Therewhile we can boldly disown Iranian origin of the grasspea’s name due to the attestation in said Egyptian papyrus (Ačaṙean could not know), predating either clothing-terms family. Fay Freak (talk) 23:56, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I have no opinion. FWIW, Acharyan's source for Arabic forms and meanings is usually, in this case . Vahag (talk) 15:47, 14 November 2021 (UTC)