عطارد
Arabic
Etymology
- From the root ط ر د (ṭ-r-d) meaning, "to chase or chase away", "to race or race after", "to cause something to pick up speed", "to outstrip", "follow swiftly"; related to the planet having the shortest orbital period and its eccentric periods of velocity, an association found cross-culturally via observation. The atypical /ع/ occurs occasionally in some Arabic dialects in replacement of /أ/ due to the pharyngeal-aspect of a nearby emphatic consonant, namely /ط/.
- A variation of ع ط د (ʕ-ṭ-d) meaning "to be extreme" in many senses including "to go at a very quick pace", "to be most hasty", "a very quick rate of going". Alternatively, ع ط د (ʕ-ṭ-d) or at least that sense derives from a later augmentation of this more popular form.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
عُطَارِد • (ʕuṭārid) m
Declension
Declension of noun عُطَارِد (ʕuṭārid)
| Singular | basic singular diptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | عُطَارِد ʕuṭārid |
— |
| Nominative | — | عُطَارِدُ ʕuṭāridu |
— |
| Accusative | — | عُطَارِدَ ʕuṭārida |
— |
| Genitive | — | عُطَارِدَ ʕuṭārida |
— |
Synonyms
- الكُتْبَي (al-kutbay, “the scribe, the record-keeper, the accountant, the clerk, the cleric, the librarian”)
- أَنْبَي (ʔanbay, “the caller, the informer, the announcer; the announcer of the account, informer of what really happened”)
- مُنْعِم (munʕim, “the one that has been favored, the agreeable one”)
See also
- (planets of the Solar System) كَوَاكِب الْمَجْمُوعَة الشَّمْسِيَّة (kawākib al-majmūʿa aš-šamsiyya); عُطَارِد (ʕuṭārid), الزُّهَرَة (az-zuhara), الْأَرْض (al-ʔarḍ), الْمِرِّيخ (al-mirrīḵ), الْمُشْتَرِي (al-muštarī), زُحَل (zuḥal), أُورَانُوس (ʾuranōs), نِبْتُون (nebtūn)
Further reading
- Freytag, Georg (1835) “عطارد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 176