عطن

Arabic

FWOTD – 16 July 2018

Etymology

From the root ع ط ن (ʿ-ṭ-n).

Pronunciation

  • Verb I a) IPA(key): /ʕatˁn/
  • Verb I b) IPA(key): /ʕa.tˁi.na/
  • Verb II IPA(key): /ʕatˁ.tˁa.na/
  • Noun IPA(key): /ʕa.tˁan/

Verb

عَطَنَ (ʿaṭana) I, non-past يَعْطِنُ or يَعْطُنُ‎ (yaʿṭinu or yaʿṭunu)

  1. to soak, to macerate, to tan (said of hides that are put to separate themselves from their hair)

Conjugation

Verb

عَطَنَ (ʿaṭana) I, non-past يَعْطِنُ or يَعْطُنُ‎ (yaʿṭinu or yaʿṭunu)

  1. to lie down, to rest near (said of camels that have satisfied their thirst)

Conjugation

Verb

عَطِنَ (ʿaṭina) I, non-past يَعْطَنُ‎ (yaʿṭanu)

  1. to rot, to foul (said of hides that are put to separate themselves from their hair)

Conjugation

Verb

عَطَّنَ (ʿaṭṭana) II, non-past يُعَطِّنُ‎ (yuʿaṭṭinu)

  1. to make a عَطَن (ʿaṭan) from
  2. to soak, to macerate, to tan (said of hides that are put to separate themselves from their hair)

Conjugation

عَطَن

Noun

عَطَن (ʿaṭan) m (plural أَعْطَان (ʾaʿṭān))

  1. place where camels rest after having quenched their thirst
    • 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, 9:
      أَأُصَلِّي فِي عَطَنِ الإِبِلِ؟ (…) لاَ وَلَكِنْ صَلِّ فِي مُرَاحِ الْغَنَمِ‏.‏
      “Can I pray at the camels’ water-place?” (…) “No, but you can pray in a sheep-pen.”

Declension

References

  • عطن” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), عطن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 179
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), عطن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2083
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), عطن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 851–852
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