عربون

Borrowed from Aramaic עַרְבֹונָא (ʿarbōnā, “pledge”), in an other form Aramaic עֲרוּבְתַָּא (ʿărūḇtā, “pledge”), related to עֲרַב (ʿăraḇ, “to vouch for”), such meanings of the root are suspected to have spread into Northwest Semitic from Akkadian 𒂊𒊒𒁀𒁺 (/⁠erubātu⁠/, “pledge, tantum”, literally “a state of entering into something, initiating or showing intent (to do business)”) or natively derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʕrb- (“to communicate, to show or declare, to make clear ones meaning or inte