فلين

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Arabic

Etymology

Not فِلّ (fill, cork) +‎ ـِين (-īn, chemical suffix) but, for the age of the word, Ancient Greek φέλλινος (phéllinos, of cork).

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Noun

فِلِّين or فَلِّين (fillīn or fallīnm

  1. cork, the bast of the cork oak

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References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فلين”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 281b
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فلين”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 982