See also: عطب

Arabic edit

Root
ع ط ن (ʕ-ṭ-n)

Pronunciation edit

  • Verb I a) IPA(key): /ʕatˤn/
  • Verb I b) IPA(key): /ʕa.tˤi.na/
  • Verb II IPA(key): /ʕatˤ.tˤa.na/
  • Noun IPA(key): /ʕa.tˤan/

Verb edit

عَطَنَ (ʕaṭana) I, non-past يَعْطِنُ or يَعْطُنُ‎ (yaʕṭinu or yaʕṭunu)

  1. to soak, to macerate, to tan (said of hides that are put to separate themselves from their hair)

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عَطَنَ (ʕaṭana) I, non-past يَعْطِنُ or يَعْطُنُ‎ (yaʕṭinu or yaʕṭunu)

  1. to lie down, to rest near (said of camels that have satisfied their thirst)

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عَطِنَ (ʕaṭina) I, non-past يَعْطَنُ‎ (yaʕṭanu)

  1. to rot, to foul (said of hides that are put to separate themselves from their hair)

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عَطَّنَ (ʕaṭṭana) II, non-past يُعَطِّنُ‎ (yuʕaṭṭinu)

  1. to make a عَطَن (ʕaṭan) from
  2. to soak, to macerate, to tan (said of hides that are put to separate themselves from their hair)

Conjugation edit

 
عَطَن

Noun edit

عَطَن (ʕaṭanm (plural أَعْطَان (ʔaʕṭān))

  1. place where camels rest after having quenched their thirst
    • 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, section 9:
      أَأُصَلِّي فِي عَطَنِ الْإِبِلِ؟ (…) لَا وَلَكِنْ صَلِّ فِي مُرَاحِ الْغَنَمِ‏.‏
      ʔaʔuṣallī fī ʕaṭani al-ʔibili? (…) lā walakin ṣalli fī murāḥi l-ḡanami.
      “Can I pray at the camels’ water-place?” (…) “No, but you can pray in a sheep-pen.”

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References edit

  • عطن” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “عطن”, 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 179
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “عطن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2083
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “عطن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 851–852