ع د ن

Arabic

Etymology

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

Root

ع د ن • (ʕ-d-n)

1. related to being acuminate

Derived terms

• Form I: عَدَنَ (ʕadana, “to stay, to bide, to remain; to dung, to manure, to fertilize”)
  • Verbal noun: عَدْن (ʕadn), عُدُون (ʕudūn)
  • Active participle: عَادِن (ʕādin)
  • Passive participle: مَعْدُون (maʕdūn)
• Form II: عَدَّنَ (ʕaddana, “to dung, to manure, to fertilize; to strike sharply, to mine in”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْدِين (taʕdīn)
  • Active participle: مُعَدِّن (muʕaddin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَدَّن (muʕaddan)
• Form V: تَعَدَّنَ (taʕaddana, “to mineralize”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَدُّن (taʕaddun)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَدِّن (mutaʕaddin)

• مَعْدِن (maʕdin, “mine, metal”)
• مِعْدَن (miʕdan, “a pointed hammer to strike rocks, a pickaxe”)
• عَدِينَة (ʕadīna, “patch in the bottom of a leathern bucket”)
• عِدَّان (ʕiddān), عَدَّان (ʕaddān), عَدَان (ʕadān, “a time; a place of remaining; shore”)
• عَدَانَة (ʕadāna, “a company of men that remains”)
• عَدَوْدَنِيّ (ʕadawdaniyy, “swift”)
• عَيْدَان (ʕaydān, “tall palm trees”); singulative عَيْدَانَة (ʕaydāna)
• عَدَن (ʕadan, “Adenium gen. et spp.”); singulative عَدَنَة (ʕadana)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ع د ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (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^[2] (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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 193–194
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع د ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], 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 with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ع د ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 821