يقطين

Arabic

Etymology

Inconspicuous, of a rare pattern yaKLīM – otherwise found only in يَعْضِيد‎ (yaʿḍīd, “Launaea mucronata”) and يَعْقِيد‎ (yaʿqīd, “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

        waʾanbatnā ʿalayhi šajaratan min yaqṭīnin

        (please add an English translation of this quote)

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], 2018-06-26
• 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

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Hijazi Arabic

يَقْطين

Etymology

From Arabic يَقْطِين‎ (yaqṭīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaɡˈtˤiːn/

Noun

يَقْطين • (yagṭīn) m pl (singular يَقْطينة‎ (yagṭīna), feminine plural يَقْطينات‎ (yagṭīnāt))

1. pumpkin

See also

• قَرْع‎ (garʿ, “squash, gourd”)