لادن

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Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λᾱ́δᾰνον (lā́dănon).

Pronunciation

Noun

لَادَن (lādanm

  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, →ISBN, 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 () 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