قن

Compare the widespread Aramaic ܩܸܢܵܐ / קִנָא / קֵינָא (qennā, “nest; animal burrow; any cluster; family of an animal”), Hebrew קֵן (qēn, “nest”), Akkadian 𒆥𒉡 (qinnu, “nest; lair; family of an animal”). Since this term is spread chiefly in Asiatic Arabic north of Najd, it is probably a continuation of the Aramaic. It is further connected back to Akkadian qanû (“to keep, to buy, to acquire”), itself with relations to Akkadian 𒂵𒈾𒉡 (ganānu, “to confine, especially a person or living thing”), and Akkadian 𒅗𒈾𒉡 (kanānu, “to twist or coil, to wrap up an object or possession”), of Proto-Semitic origin denoting concepts of crafting, to acquire or make, building up, to establish or make stay.

قُنّ • (qunn) m (plural قِنَان (qinān))

1. coop for domestic birds to be fattened, pen for poultry, brooding cage, henhouse, pigeon’s home and the like

   Synonyms: خُمّ (ḵumm), خُنّ (ḵunn), كِرْس (kirs), زَرِيبَة (zarība), مَدَجّ (madajj)

• كُنّ (kunn) — Upper Egypt

Connected to ق ن ي (q-n-y) meaning to acquire or keep; for more see above.

قِنّ • (qinn) m or f (plural أَقْنَان (ʔaqnān) or أَقِنَّة (ʔaqinna))

1. slave, serf or a particular kind of slave or serf or enslaved possession, one that is kept or acquired

• قُنُونَة (qunūna), قِنِّيّة (qinniyya, “such slavehood”)

Uncertain with multiple correlations suggesting doublets of a similar term. A variation of قِمَّة (qimma) denoting a heap or pile, to scrape together into a vertex. Alternatively, a variant of قِنّ (qinn), a clipping of قِنِّينَة (qinnīna); literally a bottle or flask by comparison to its narrowing as it rises. Compare also قُلَّة (qulla) which may have a similar conception as its source or alternative from its smallness at the tip, its narrowing.

قُنّ • (qunn) m

1. Alternative form of قُنَّة (qunna), summit, small mountain

• “qn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “قن” in Almaany
• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 360–364
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• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قن”, 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 501a
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