فدهن

Soqotri

Noun

فدهن (fə́dhon) m (dual فدآني (fədɔ́ni), plural فدنهين (fə́dnhin))

1. mountain
   • 2014, “A True Friend”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, page 316, line 11:

     طيه شآم عمارو: عيكي ڸطهارو إِدطوق إِدفدهن أحاراؤو من طحُرهير.

     ṭəy šɔm ʕəmɛ́ro ʕə́yki ḷəṭháro id-ṭoḳ id-fə́dhon əḥaróʔo mən ṭaḥórhir

     One day they said: "Let's go up there to the mountains to hunt wild goats."

2. large stone, boulder

References

• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 533
• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 453