يعضيد

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • عَضِيد (ʕaḍīd)

Etymology

Of a rare pattern yaFʿīL – else found only in يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn, a kind of squash or gourd) and يَعْقِيد (yaʕqīd, thickened honey) – but connected to the root ع ض د (ʕ-ḍ-d), so perhaps from a Semitic substrate.

Noun

يَعْضِيد • (yaʕḍīd) m

  1. Launaea mucronata

Declension

References

  • “Yaqṭīn as substratum vocabulary?”, in Jabal al-Lughat, 2018 June 26
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