عطن

Arabic

FWOTD – 16 July 2018

Etymology

From the root ع ط ن‎ (ʕ-ṭ-n).

Pronunciation

  • Verb I a) IPA(key): /ʕatˤn/
  • Verb I b) IPA(key): /ʕa.tˤi.na/
  • Verb II IPA(key): /ʕatˤ.tˤa.na/
  • Noun IPA(key): /ʕa.tˤan/

Verb

عَطَنَ • (ʕaṭana) I, non-past يَعْطِنُ‎ or يَعْطُنُ‎‎ (yaʕṭinu or yaʕṭunu)

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

Conjugation

Verb

عَطَنَ • (ʕaṭana) I, non-past يَعْطِنُ‎ or يَعْطُنُ‎‎ (yaʕṭinu or yaʕṭunu)

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

Conjugation

Verb

عَطِنَ • (ʕaṭina) I, non-past يَعْطَنُ‎‎ (yaʕṭanu)

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

Conjugation

Verb

عَطَّنَ • (ʕaṭṭana) II, non-past يُعَطِّنُ‎‎ (yuʕaṭṭinu)

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

Conjugation

عَطَن

Noun

عَطَن • (ʕaṭan) m (plural أَعْطَان‎ (ʔaʕṭān))

  1. place where camels rest after having quenched their thirst
    • 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, 9:
      ‏أَأُصَلِّي فِي عَطَنِ الْإِبِلِ؟ (…) لَا وَلَكِنْ صَلِّ فِي مُرَاحِ الْغَنَمِ‏.‏‎
      ʔaʔuṣallī fī ʕaṭani l-ʔibili? (…) lā walakin ṣalli fī murāḥi l-ḡanami.
      “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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