عطن

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See also: عطب

Arabic

Root
ع ط ن (ʕ ṭ n)
1 term

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 (yaʕṭinu) or يَعْطُنُ (yaʕṭunu), verbal noun عَطْن (ʕaṭn))

  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 (yaʕṭinu) or يَعْطُنُ (yaʕṭunu), verbal noun عُطُون (ʕuṭūn))

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

Conjugation

Verb

عَطِنَ (ʕaṭina) I (non-past يَعْطَنُ (yaʕṭanu), verbal noun عَطَن (ʕaṭan))

  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), verbal noun تَعْطِين (taʕṭīn))

  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 (ʕaṭanm (plural أَعْطَان (ʔaʕṭān))

  1. place where camels rest after having quenched their thirst
    • 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, section 9:
      أَأُصَلِّي فِي عَطَنِ الْإِبِلِ؟ (…) لَا وَلَكِنْ صَلِّ فِي مُرَاحِ الْغَنَمِ.
      ʔaʔuṣallī fī ʕaṭani al-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 with 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