يقطين

Arabic

Etymology

Inconspicuous, of a rare pattern yaKLīM – else found only in يَعْضِيد (yaʿḍīd, Launaea mucronata) and يَعْقِيد (yaʿqīd, thickened honey) – but connected to the root ق ط ن (q-ṭ-n), so perhaps from a Semitic substrate.

Noun

يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn) m

  1. a variety of squash or gourd
    1. pumpkin

Declension

References
  • يقطين” in Almaany
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 292
  • “Yaqṭīn as substratum vocabulary?”, in Jabal al-Lughat, 2018-06-26
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), يقطين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 912

Hijazi Arabic

يَقْطين

Etymology

From Arabic يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jaɡˈtˤiːn/

Noun

يَقْطين • (yagṭīn) m pl

(singular يَقْطينة ‎(yagṭīna), feminine plural يَقْطينات ‎(yagṭīnāt))
  1. pumpkin

See also

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