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Arabic
Etymology
The meanings “to stay, to bide” of the Arabic root ع د ن • (ʕ-d-n) appear to be denominal from the due date and spatial meanings of عِدَّان (ʕiddān), to be separated from the significations of “striking sharply”, hence “to manure”, “mine; metal”.
Root
ع د ن • (ʕ-d-n)
- related to being acuminate
Derived terms
- Form I: عَدَنَ (ʕadana, “to stay, to bide, to remain; to dung, to manure, to fertilize”)
- Form II: عَدَّنَ (ʕaddana, “to dung, to manure, to fertilize; to strike sharply, to mine in”)
- Form V: تَعَدَّنَ (taʕaddana, “to mineralize”)
- مَعْدِن (maʕdin, “mine, metal”)
- مِعْدَن (miʕdan, “a pointed hammer to strike rocks, a pickaxe”)
- عَدِينَة (ʕadīna, “patch in the bottom of a leathern bucket”)
- عِدَّان (ʕiddān), عَدَّان (ʕaddān), عَدَان (ʕadān, “a time; a place of remaining; shore”)
- عَدَانَة (ʕadāna, “a company of men that remains”)
- عَدَوْدَنِيّ (ʕadawdaniyy, “swift”)
- عَيْدَان (ʕaydān, “tall palm trees”); singulative عَيْدَانَة (ʕaydāna)
- عَدَن (ʕadan, “Adenium gen. et spp.”); singulative عَدَنَة (ʕadana)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ع د ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 104
- Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع د ن”, 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, pages 121–122
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ع د 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 Cie, pages 193–194
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع د ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1976–1977
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “ع د ن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 699
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ع د ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 821