يقطين
Arabic
Etymology
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
يَقْطِين • (yaqṭīn) m (singulative يَقْطِينَة (yaqṭīna))
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
- “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, 2018-06-26
- 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

يَقْطين
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jaɡ.tˤiːn/
Noun
يَقْطين • (yagṭīn) m (collective, singulative يَقْطينة f (yagṭīna), plural يَقْطينات (yagṭīnāt))
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