ع ي ن

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Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʕayn-.

Root

ع ي ن • (ʕ-y-n)

related to the eye

Derived terms

Verbs and verbal derivatives

Form I: عَانَ (ʕāna)
- Verbal noun: عَيْنَان (ʕaynān)
- Active participle: ?
- Passive participle: مَعِين (maʕīn)
Form II: عَيَّنَ (ʕayyana)
- Verbal noun: تَعْيِين (taʕyīn)
- Active participle: مُعَيِّن (muʕayyin)
- Passive participle: مُعَيَّن (muʕayyan)
Form III: عَايَنَ (ʕāyana, “to inspect”)
- Verbal noun: مُعَايَنَة (muʕāyana)
- Active participle: مُعَايِن (muʕāyin)
- Passive participle: مُعَايَن (muʕāyan)
Form IV: أَعَانَ (ʔaʕāna)
- Verbal noun: إِعَانَة (ʔiʕāna)
- Active participle: مُعِين (muʕīn)
- Passive participle: مُعَان (muʕān)
Form V: تَعَيَّنَ (taʕayyana)
- Verbal noun: تَعَيُّن (taʕayyun)
- Active participle: مُتَعَيِّن (mutaʕayyin)
- Passive participle: مُتَعَيَّن (mutaʕayyan)
Form VIII: اِعْتَانَ (iʕtāna)
- Verbal noun: اِعْتِيَان (iʕtiyān)
- Active participle: مُعْتَان (muʕtān)
- Passive participle: مُعْتَان (muʕtān)

Nouns and adjectives

عَيْن (ʕayn, “eye”)
مَعِين (maʕīn, “well, spring”)

References

Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ع ي ن”, 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 C^ie, pages 424–428

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