خ ت ن

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See also: ختن and جبن

Arabic

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Etymology

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A Proto-Semitic kinship term, compare Akkadian 𒄩𒋫𒉡 (/⁠ḫatānu⁠/, in-law, son-in-law, brother-in-law or bridegroom), Hebrew חָתָן (ḫātān, bridegroom, son-in-law; the infant fit for circumcision), Aramaic חתנה / חַתְנָא / ܚܲܬܼܢܵܐ (ḥaṯnā, bridegroom; son-in-law), Old South Arabian 𐩣𐩭𐩩𐩬 (mḫtn, family).

Root

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خ ت ن (ḵ-t-n)

  1. forms words related to a man becoming related through marriage
  2. forms words related to circumcision

Derived terms

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  • خَتَن (ḵatan, a man related through marriage)
  • خُتُونَة (ḵutūna, a man’s relationship through marriage)
  • خِتَان (ḵitān, circumcision; a feast for wedding or circumcision)
  • خَاتِن (ḵātin, circumciser; wife’s father)
  • خِتَانَة (ḵitāna, the art or business of circumcision)

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 394
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خ ت ن”, 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 461
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خ ت 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[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 540
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خ ت ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 703–704