olibanum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Medieval Latin olibanum, from Latin oleum libani, the first word meaning oil and the second from Ancient Greek λίβανος (líbanos, “frankincense (Boswellia sacra)”), from a Semitic source, compare Proto-Semitic *laban- (“white”). Cognate with Biblical Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic لبان (lubān, “frankincense”). (Compare benzoin for a similar process of metanalysis.) Doublet of oliban. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɒˈlɪbənəm/ === Noun === olibanum (countable and uncountable, plural olibanums) A gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense. [from 14th c.] ==== Synonyms ==== frankincense ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === balonium, umbonial