أم غيلان
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Arabic
[edit]Etymology
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غ و ل (ḡ w l) |
4 terms |
Literally mother of ghouls, that is the abode of ghouls.
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]أُمّ غِيلَان or أُمّ غَيْلَان • (ʔumm ḡīlān or ʔumm ḡaylān) f
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see أُمّ (ʔumm), غَيْلَان (ḡaylān).
- a. 700, Ḍirār ibn al-Ḵaṭṭāb al-Fihrīy, جَزى اللَهُ عَنّا أُمَّ غيلانَ صالِحاً[1]:
- gum arabic tree, Vachellia nilotica; gum-bearing acacia (Vachellia gummifera, which is spread in Morocco, delimiting the distribution of Vachellia nilotica more eastwards)
- a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات [ʿajāʾib al-maḵlūqāt wa-ḡarāʾib al-mawjūdāt][2], Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1849, page 249:
- أم غيلان شجرة عضاه البادية كثيرة الشوك قال الشيخ الرئيس أصوله يسمّى بنك يخربه به يطيب رائحة البدن ويقطع رائحة النورة.
- The gum-arabic tree is a spiky shrub of the desert, of many thorns, Šayḵ ar-Raʾīs says its stems are called bang, they are transfixed and improve the smell of the Nubian ibex and it cuts the smell of the flower.
Declension
[edit]Declension of noun أُمّ غِيلَان (ʔumm ḡīlān); أُمّ غَيْلَان (ʔumm ḡaylān)
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | — | أُمّ غِيلَان; أُمّ غَيْلَان ʔumm ḡīlān; ʔumm ḡaylān |
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Nominative | — | أُمُّ غِيلَانٍ; أُمُّ غَيْلَانَ ʔummu ḡīlānin; ʔummu ḡaylāna |
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Accusative | — | أُمَّ غِيلَانٍ; أُمَّ غَيْلَانَ ʔumma ḡīlānin; ʔumma ḡaylāna |
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Genitive | — | أُمِّ غِيلَانٍ; أُمِّ غَيْلَانَ ʔummi ḡīlānin; ʔummi ḡaylāna |
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Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 73
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 938
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “مغیلان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 867a