ع ي ن

From Proto-Semitic *ʿayn-, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ʕayVn-.

ع ي ن • (ʿ-y-n)

1. related to the eye

Verbs and verbal derivatives

• Form I: عَانَ‎ (ʿāna)
  • Verbal noun: عَيْنَان‎ (ʿaynān)
  • Active participle: عَائِن‎ (ʿāʾin)
  • Passive participle: مَعِين‎ (maʿīn)
• Form II: عَيَّنَ‎ (ʿayyana)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْيِين‎ (taʿyīn)
  • Active participle: مُعَيِّن‎ (muʿayyin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَيَّن‎ (muʿayyan)
• Form III: عَايَنَ‎ (ʿāyana, “to inspect”)
  • Verbal noun: مُعَايَنَة‎ (muʿāyana), عِيَان‎ (ʿiyān)
  • Active participle: مُعَايِن‎ (muʿāyin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَايَن‎ (muʿāyan)
• Form IV: أَعَانَ‎ (ʾaʿāna)
  • Verbal noun: إِعَانَة‎ (ʾiʿāna)
  • Active participle: مُعِين‎ (muʿīn)
  • Passive participle: مُعَان‎ (muʿān)
• Form V: تَعَيَّنَ‎ (taʿayyana)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَيُّن‎ (taʿayyun)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَيِّن‎ (mutaʿayyin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَعَيَّن‎ (mutaʿayyan)
• Form VIII: اِعْتَانَ‎ (iʿtāna)
  • Verbal noun: اِعْتِيَان‎ (iʿtiyān)
  • Active participle: مُعْتَان‎ (muʿtān)
  • Passive participle: مُعْتَان‎ (muʿtān)

Nouns and adjectives

• عَيْن‎ (ʿayn, “eye”)
• مَعِين‎ (maʿīn, “well, spring”)

• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ع ي ن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 424–428