ع د ن

ع د ن

Arabic

Etymology

The meanings “to stay, to bide” of the Arabic root ع د ن • (ʿ-d-n) appear to be denominal from the due date and spatial meanings of عِدَّان‎ (ʿiddān), to be separated from the significations of “striking sharply”, hence “to manure”, “mine; metal”.

Root

ع د ن • (ʿ-d-n)

1. related to being acuminate

Derived terms

• Form I: عَدَنَ‎ (ʿadana, “to stay, to bide, to remain; to dung, to manure, to fertilize”)
  • Verbal noun: عَدْن‎ (ʿadn), عُدُون‎ (ʿudūn)
  • Active participle: عَادِن‎ (ʿādin)
  • Passive participle: مَعْدُون‎ (maʿdūn)
• Form II: عَدَّنَ‎ (ʿaddana, “to dung, to manure, to fertilize; to strike sharply, to mine in”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْدِين‎ (taʿdīn)
  • Active participle: مُعَدِّن‎ (muʿaddin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَدَّن‎ (muʿaddan)
• Form V: تَعَدَّنَ‎ (taʿaddana, “to mineralize”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَدُّن‎ (taʿaddun)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَدِّن‎ (mutaʿaddin)

• مَعْدِن‎ (maʿdin, “mine, metal”)
• مِعْدَن‎ (miʿdan, “a pointed hammer to strike rocks, a pickaxe”)
• عَدِينَة‎ (ʿadīna, “patch in the bottom of a leathern bucket”)
• عِدَّان‎ (ʿiddān), عَدَّان‎ (ʿaddān), عَدَان‎ (ʿadān, “a time; a place of remaining; shore”)
• عَدَانَة‎ (ʿadāna, “a company of men that remains”)
• عَدَوْدَنِيّ‎ (ʿadawdaniyy, “swift”)
• عَيْدَان‎ (ʿaydān, “tall palm trees”); singulative عَيْدَانَة‎ (ʿaydāna)
• عَدَن‎ (ʿadan, “Adenium gen. et spp.”); singulative عَدَنَة‎ (ʿadana)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ع د ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 104
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ع د ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 121–122
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ع د ن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 193–194
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ع د ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1976–1977
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ع د ن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 699
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ع د ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 821