Arabic

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Etymology

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From the root ن ت ن (n-t-n). Allegedly cognate to Hebrew נָתַן (nātán, to give), Aramaic נָתַן (nātan, to give), Aramaic נְתַן (nətan, to give; to put), Phoenician 𐤉𐤕𐤍 (ytn, to give), Ugaritic 𐎊𐎚𐎐 (ytn, to give), Ge'ez ነተን (nätän, to give), Akkadian 𒋧 (nadānum, to give) by specialization to the meaning “give off smell”. Note the Akkadian spelling comes from Sumerian 𒋧 (šum, to give), however it is spelt identically to the Semitic Akkadian 𒋧 (šum, garlic, onion; potent smelling bulb) possibly indicating an early semantic connection; compare ثُوم (ṯūm).

Verb

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نَتَنَ or نَتِنَ (natana or natina) I (non-past يَنْتِنُ (yantinu) or يَنْتَنُ (yantanu), verbal noun نَتْن (natn)) نَتُنَ (natuna) I (non-past يَنْتُنُ (yantunu), verbal noun نَتَانَة (natāna) or نُتُونَة (nutūna))

  1. (intransitive) to be offensive to the nose, to smell foul; to stink (especially of decay)
    Synonyms: عَفِنَ (ʕafina, to rot), فَسَدَ (fasada, to spoil)
    1. (intransitive, by extension) to be offensive to the senses, faith, or morals; to be vile, repulsive, or disgusting

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نَتَّنَ (nattana) II (non-past يُنَتِّنُ (yunattinu), verbal noun تَنْتِين (tantīn))

  1. (transitive) to cause to stink, to fester, to putrefy, to decay

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Noun

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نَتْن (natnm

  1. verbal noun of نَتَنَ (natana) (form I)
  2. verbal noun of نَتِنَ (natina) (form I)

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Adjective

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نَتِن (natin) (feminine نَتِنَة (natina), masculine plural نَتِنُونَ (natinūna), feminine plural نَتِنَات (natināt))

  1. malodorant, stinky, fetid; putrid
    Synonym: عَفِن (ʕafin, rotten)

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References

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  • نتن” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نتن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 238
  • Haupt, Paul (1915) “Kleine Mitteilungen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 69, page 564