يقطين

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Inconspicuous, of a rare pattern yaFʿīL – otherwise found only in يَعْضِيد (yaʕḍīd, Launaea mucronata) and يَعْقِيد (yaʕqīd, thickened honey) – but connected to the root ق ط ن (q-ṭ-n), so perhaps from a Semitic substrate.

Noun

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يَقْطِين (yaqṭīnm (singulative يَقْطِينَة (yaqṭīna))

  1. a variety of squash or gourd
    1. pumpkin
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 37:146:
        وَأَنْبَتْنَا عَلَيْهِ شَجَرَةً مِنْ يَقْطِينٍ
        waʔanbatnā ʕalayhi šajaratan min yaqṭīnin
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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References

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  • 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 June 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

Hijazi Arabic

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يَقْطين

Etymology

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From Arabic يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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يَقْطين (yagṭīnm (collective, singulative يَقْطينة f (yagṭīna), plural يَقْطينات (yagṭīnāt))

  1. pumpkin

See also

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