عنعن

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Arabic

Etymology

Reduplicated from عَنْ (ʕan).

Pronunciation

Verb

عَنْعَنَ (ʕanʕana) Iq (non-past يُعَنْعِنُ (yuʕanʕinu), verbal noun عَنْعَنَة (ʕanʕana))

  1. to trace one's origin to
  2. (Islam) to narrate (a ḥadīth) using the preposition عَنْ (ʕan, on the authority of)
    حَدِيثٌ مُعَنْعَنٌḥadīṯun muʕanʕanuna ḥadīth muʿanʿan, i.e. a ḥadīth narrated using the preposition عَنْ (ʕan, on the authority of)
  3. to pronounce the ء (ʔ) like ع (ʕ), in such manner as to pronounce عَنْ (ʕan) instead of أَنْ (ʔan), which is said to have been characteristic of the Tamīm (تَمِيم) tribe

Conjugation

References

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “عنعن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 385–386
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عنعن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 731
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “عنعنات”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 760–761

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Noun

عنعن (ʕanʕanm

  1. (childish) car