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 • (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

Declension of noun يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn)
singular basic singular triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal يَقْطِين
yaqṭīn
الْيَقْطِين
al-yaqṭīn
يَقْطِين
yaqṭīn
nominative يَقْطِينٌ
yaqṭīnun
الْيَقْطِينُ
al-yaqṭīnu
يَقْطِينُ
yaqṭīnu
accusative يَقْطِينًا
yaqṭīnan
الْيَقْطِينَ
al-yaqṭīna
يَقْطِينَ
yaqṭīna
genitive يَقْطِينٍ
yaqṭīnin
الْيَقْطِينِ
al-yaqṭīni
يَقْطِينِ
yaqṭīni

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[1], 26 June 2018
  • 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

Etymology

From Arabic يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jaɡ.tˤiːn/

Noun

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

  1. pumpkin

See also