لادن

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • لَاذَن‎ (lāḏan), لَدَان‎ (ladān), لَذَان‎ (laḏān)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λᾱ́δᾰνον (lā́danon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laː.dan/

Noun

لَادَن • (lādan) m

  1. gum cistus
    Synonym: قِسْتُوس‎ (qistūs)

Declension

References

  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1147 makes the claim of the Arabic being from OSA 𐩡𐩵𐩬‎ (ldn), in spite of even some Aramaic forms obviously being from Greek, and which is incompatible with the presence of ذ‎ (ḏ) in the Arabic form, as noted by Sima, Alexander (2000) Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 273 footnote 58, who opts for a Greek borrowing into Arabic.
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “لادن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 524a
  • Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1888) Kleinere Schriften‎ (in German), volume 2, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, page 732
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), “لَذَان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 99a
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