تنين

Borrowed from Aramaic תַּנִּינָא / ܬܲܢܝܼܢܵܐ (tannīnā, “sea serpent, monster”), from Akkadian 𒆗𒉌𒈾 (danninu, “netherworld; source of earthquakes; the inaccessible land where the dead remain”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dnn/*tnn (“to be mighty, to be strong; to be fortified, to be long lasting, to stay at a place; to rumble, to earthquake, to shake with a booming noise”). Doublet of دَنْدَن (dandan, “mythical monsterous fish that can swallow everything else in the sea, the biggest fish in the sea”); possibly related as well to Egyptian dnwn (/⁠denwen⁠/, “giant serpent whose body was made of fire defeated by the spirit of the dead pharaoh; symbolic of drought, chaos, and destructive natural forces”) attested in the Pyramid Texts of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /tin.niːn/

تِنِّين • (tinnīn) m (plural تَنَانِين (tanānīn))

1. eel, whale, any scaled animal (obsolete)
2. (mythology) sea monster
3. (mythology) dragon
4. (astronomy) (normally اَلتِّنِّين (at-tinnīn)) Draco
5. (weather) waterspout

• >? Sicilian: biḍḍina

• IPA^(key): /tan.niːn/

تَنِّين • (tannīn) m

1. (chemistry) tannin, tannic acid

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 123

From Arabic اِثْنَيْن (iṯnayn).

• IPA^(key): /tniːn/, /tnajn/

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تنِين or تنَيْن • (tnīn or tnayn) m

1. two

   Synonyms: جوج (jūj), زوج (zūj)

From Arabic اِثْنَيْن (iṯnayn).

• IPA^(key): /tneːn/, [tneːn]

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تنين • (tnēn) m (feminine تنتين (tintēn))

1. two

• When referring to two instances of a noun, it is preferred to use the dual form of the noun (with the suffix ـين (-ēn)) instead of the numeral.
• تنين (tnēn) can also be used as an adjective following the noun.

تنين • (tnēn) (feminine تنتين (tintēn))

1. two, both

   Synonym: (dual suffix) ـين (-ēn)

• تنينات (tnēnāt, “both of”)