يقطين

Arabic

Etymology

Inconspicuous, of a rare pattern yaFʿīL – otherwise found only in يَعْضِيد (yaʕḍīd, “Launaea mucronata”) and يَعْقِيد (yaʕqīd, “thickened honey”) – but connected to the root ق ط ن (q ṭ n), so perhaps from a Semitic substrate.

Noun

يَقْطِين • (yaqṭīn) m (singulative يَقْطِينَة (yaqṭīna))

1. a variety of squash or gourd
   1. pumpkin
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 37:146:

        وَأَنْبَتْنَا عَلَيْهِ شَجَرَةً مِنْ يَقْطِينٍ

        waʔanbatnā ʕalayhi šajaratan min yaqṭīnin

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of noun يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	يَقْطِين yaqṭīn	الْيَقْطِين al-yaqṭīn	يَقْطِين yaqṭīn
nominative	يَقْطِينٌ yaqṭīnun	الْيَقْطِينُ al-yaqṭīnu	يَقْطِينُ yaqṭīnu
accusative	يَقْطِينًا yaqṭīnan	الْيَقْطِينَ al-yaqṭīna	يَقْطِينَ yaqṭīna
genitive	يَقْطِينٍ yaqṭīnin	الْيَقْطِينِ al-yaqṭīni	يَقْطِينِ yaqṭīni

References

• “يقطين” in Almaany
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938), The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 292
• “Yaqṭīn as substratum vocabulary?”, in Jabal al-Lughat‎^[1], 26 June 2018
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “يقطين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 912

Hijazi Arabic

يَقْطين

Etymology

From Arabic يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaɡ.tˤiːn/

Noun

يَقْطين • (yagṭīn) m (collective, singulative يَقْطينة f (yagṭīna), plural يَقْطينات (yagṭīnāt))

1. pumpkin

See also

• قَرْع (garʕ, “squash, gourd”)