أشنان

See also: اشنان, أسنان, إسنان, إسبان, أستأن, استان, and استأن

Arabic

Alternative forms

• شِنَان (šinān)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اُشْنَان (ušnān) or its Middle Persian ancestor, related to Arabic أُشْنَة (ʔušna, “moss, lichen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔuʃ.naːn/

Noun

أُشْنَان • (ʔušnān) m

1. saltwort, Amaranthaceae spp.:
   1. Anabasis gen et spp.
   2. Arthrocnemum macrostachyum
   3. Kali spp.
   4. Salsola spp.
   5. Salicornia spp.
2. potash

   Synonyms: قِلْي (qily), قِلْو (qilw), بُوتَاس (būtās)

Declension

Declension of noun أُشْنَان (ʔušnān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أُشْنَان ʔušnān	الْأُشْنَان al-ʔušnān	أُشْنَان ʔušnān
Nominative	أُشْنَانٌ ʔušnānun	الْأُشْنَانُ al-ʔušnānu	أُشْنَانُ ʔušnānu
Accusative	أُشْنَانًا ʔušnānan	الْأُشْنَانَ al-ʔušnāna	أُشْنَانَ ʔušnāna
Genitive	أُشْنَانٍ ʔušnānin	الْأُشْنَانِ al-ʔušnāni	أُشْنَانِ ʔušnāni

Descendants

• Maltese: xnien (“clover”), xniel

References

• [1]
• Bailey, H. W. (1967) Prolexis to the Book of Zambasta (Indo-Scythian Studies Being Khotanese Texts; 6), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 398
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “أشنان”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 25
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “أشنان”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 789
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أشنان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 62
• Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 144, 253, 360
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أشنان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 27