خدن

Arabic

FWOTD – 3 July 2022

Etymology

Univerbation of أَخٌ دَانٍ (ʔaḵun dānin), literally “close brother”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xidn/

Noun

خِدْن • (ḵidn) m or f (plural أَخْدَان (ʔaḵdān)) (countable, archaic)

1. a close friend, an intimate

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ar:friend

2. an amorous companion, a boyfriend or girlfriend; a bedmate

Declension

Declension of noun خِدْن (ḵidn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خِدْن ḵidn	الْخِدْن al-ḵidn	خِدْن ḵidn
Nominative	خِدْنٌ ḵidnun	الْخِدْنُ al-ḵidnu	خِدْنُ ḵidnu
Accusative	خِدْنًا ḵidnan	الْخِدْنَ al-ḵidna	خِدْنَ ḵidna
Genitive	خِدْنٍ ḵidnin	الْخِدْنِ al-ḵidni	خِدْنِ ḵidni
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خِدْنَيْن ḵidnayn	الْخِدْنَيْن al-ḵidnayn	خِدْنَيْ ḵidnay
Nominative	خِدْنَانِ ḵidnāni	الْخِدْنَانِ al-ḵidnāni	خِدْنَا ḵidnā
Accusative	خِدْنَيْنِ ḵidnayni	الْخِدْنَيْنِ al-ḵidnayni	خِدْنَيْ ḵidnay
Genitive	خِدْنَيْنِ ḵidnayni	الْخِدْنَيْنِ al-ḵidnayni	خِدْنَيْ ḵidnay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَخْدَان ʔaḵdān	الْأَخْدَان al-ʔaḵdān	أَخْدَان ʔaḵdān
Nominative	أَخْدَانٌ ʔaḵdānun	الْأَخْدَانُ al-ʔaḵdānu	أَخْدَانُ ʔaḵdānu
Accusative	أَخْدَانًا ʔaḵdānan	الْأَخْدَانَ al-ʔaḵdāna	أَخْدَانَ ʔaḵdāna
Genitive	أَخْدَانٍ ʔaḵdānin	الْأَخْدَانِ al-ʔaḵdāni	أَخْدَانِ ʔaḵdāni

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:خدن.

Alternative forms

• خَدِين (ḵadīn)

Derived terms

• خُدْنَة (ḵudna, “one who associates with people as their خِدْن (ḵidn) much”)
• أَخْدَن (ʔaḵdan, “provided with أَخْدَان (ʔaḵdān)”)
• خَادَنَ (ḵādana, “to be private friends with”)

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 398
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خدن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 468a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خدن”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 548b–549a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خدن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 712
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “خدن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 268a