يقطين
Arabic
Etymology
Inconspicuous, of a rare pattern yaKLīM – else 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
Declension
Declension of noun يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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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], 2018 June 26
- 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
Etymology
From Arabic يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn).
Pronunciation
Noun
يَقْطين • (yagṭīn) m pl (singular يَقْطينة (yagṭīna), feminine plural يَقْطينات (yagṭīnāt))
See also
Categories:
- Arabic terms with unknown etymologies
- Arabic terms belonging to the root ق ط ن
- Arabic terms borrowed from Semitic languages
- Arabic terms derived from Semitic languages
- Arabic terms borrowed from substrate languages
- Arabic terms derived from substrate languages
- Arabic lemmas
- Arabic nouns
- Arabic masculine nouns
- Arabic nouns with basic triptote singular
- ar:Gourd family plants
- Hijazi Arabic terms derived from Arabic
- Hijazi Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hijazi Arabic lemmas
- Hijazi Arabic nouns
- Hijazi Arabic masculine nouns
- Hijazi Arabic pluralia tantum