ع ر ن

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See also: ع ز ن

Arabic

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Etymology

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Without Semitic kinship. Perhaps dissimilated from ع ن ن (ʕ-n-n).

Root

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ع ر ن (ʕ-r-n)

  1. related to outgrowths or protrusions, to thorns, hard bumps, or peaks
  2. related to nails and spikes, making firm or securing, (stemming from thorns)
  3. related to flesh-meat, the smell or odor of anything cooked (stemming from traditional animal fat-based poultices used to cure abrasions and scabs)

Derived terms

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  • عَرَن (ʕaran, callous outgrowth; fleshmeat and its odour; St John's wort)
  • عَرِين (ʕarīn) and عَرِينَة (ʕarīna, thicket; burrow, den, covert resort of a beast)
  • عِرْنَة (ʕirna, coarse man, piece from a discutient plant used for this property)
  • عُرَانِيَة (ʕurāniya, the most upper part of waves or the deepest part of a body of water)
  • عِرَان (ʕirān, wood between the nostrils of a camel; pin of the sheave of a pulley; pin that conjoins the head and the shaft of an arrow or spear; pin, nail; distance, remoteness; distant houses)
  • عِرْنِين (ʕirnīn, nose bridge; first or leading part of anything)

References

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  • 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 860
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ع ر ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 122
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ر ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 146–147
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ع ر 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[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 235–236
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع ر ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2026–2027
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ع ر ن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 712