ذرآني

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ذ ر ء (ḏ-r-ʔ)

Etymology[edit]

From ذَرَأ (ḏaraʔ), ذُرْأَة (ḏurʔa, whiteness), verb ذَرَأَ (ḏaraʔa), ذَرُؤَ (ḏaruʔa, to become white, to get whiteness intermixed into the saturated colour)

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ذَرْآنِيّ (ḏarʔāniyy) (feminine ذَرْآنِيَّة (ḏarʔāniyya), masculine plural ذَرْآنِيُّونَ (ḏarʔāniyyūna), feminine plural ذَرْآنِيَّات (ḏarʔāniyyāt)) (obsolete)

  1. (obsolete) white (maybe only ever used by مِلْح (milḥ) for white salt)
    • a. 1165, ابن التلميذ [Ibn al-Tilmīḏ], edited by Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn At-Tilmīḏ الأقراباذين الكبير (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 70), Leiden: Brill, published 2007, →ISBN, page 138 Nr. 297:
      ويلقى عليه جزآن من الآس المسحوق ونصف جزء من الملح الذرآني
      and throw onto it two parts of ground myrtle and half a part of white salt;

Declension[edit]