ع ث ن

Cognate to Hebrew עָשָׁן (ʿāšān, “smoke”), Classical Syriac ܬܢܢܐ (tennānā, “smoke, steam, fume”), maybe originally related to نَتَنَ (natana, “to stink”) and وَتِين (watīn, “aorta”), and via contamination from ع ط ر (ʕ-ṭ-r) to Ge'ez ዕጣን (ʿəṭan, “incense”).

ع ث ن • (ʕ-ṯ-n)

1. Related to scent, fragrance.

• Form I: عَثَنَ (ʕaṯana)
  • Verbal noun: عَثْن (ʕaṯn), عُثُون (ʕuṯūn), عُثَان (ʕuṯān)
  • Active participle: عَاثِن (ʕāṯin)
  • Passive participle: مَعْثُون (maʕṯūn)
• Form II: عَثَّنَ (ʕaṯṯana)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْثِين (taʕṯīn)
  • Active participle: مُعَثِّن (muʕaṯṯin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَثَّن (muʕaṯṯan)
• Form IV: أَعْثَنَ (ʔaʕṯana)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْثَان (ʔiʕṯān)
  • Active participle: مُعْثِن (muʕṯin)
  • Passive participle: مُعْثَن (muʕṯan)

• عَثَن (ʕaṯan, “fume; small idol”)
• عُثَان (ʕuṯān, “fume; powder”)
• عُثْنُون (ʕuṯnūn, “goatee”)
• عِثْن (ʕiṯn, “a kind of خُوص (ḵūṣ) that the beasts like”)

• 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 845
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ث ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 108–109
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ع ث ن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 172
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ع ث ن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 671