أفسنتين

Arabic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion). Doublet of إِسْفِنْط (ʔisfinṭ) borrowed earlier.

أَفْسِنْتِين • (ʔafsintīn) m

grande wormwood, absinthe
- c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 16, page 680:
  وقيل إن نضح بقدر جرة من ماء الزيتون قدر مائة جرة من الطعام لم يفسد ولم تصبه آفة وإن نضح عليه ماء الأفسنتين بقي ولم يفسد.
  It is said that when a jar of wheat is dampened with a jar of amurca it does not suffer decay nor damage, and if it is dampened with absinthe water, it stays and does not rot.
the beverage absinthe

Declension of noun **أَفْسِنْتِين** (ʔafsintīn)
singular	basic singular diptote
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أَفْسِنْتِين ʔafsintīn	الْأَفْسِنْتِين al-ʔafsintīn	أَفْسِنْتِين ʔafsintīn
nominative	أَفْسِنْتِينُ ʔafsintīnu	الْأَفْسِنْتِينُ al-ʔafsintīnu	أَفْسِنْتِينُ ʔafsintīnu
accusative	أَفْسِنْتِينَ ʔafsintīna	الْأَفْسِنْتِينَ al-ʔafsintīna	أَفْسِنْتِينَ ʔafsintīna
genitive	أَفْسِنْتِينَ ʔafsintīna	الْأَفْسِنْتِينِ al-ʔafsintīni	أَفْسِنْتِينِ ʔafsintīni

→ Persian: افسنتین
- → Gujarati: અફસંતીન (aphasantīn)
- → Hindi: अफ़संतीन (afsantīn)
- → Punjabi: ਅਫਸੰਤੀਨ (aphasantīn)

Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “أفسنتين”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 29
Freytag, Georg (1830) “أفسنتين”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 43
Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أفسنتين”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 30