عنعن

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Reduplicated from عَنْ (ʕan).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

عَنْعَنَ (ʕanʕana) Iq, non-past يُعَنْعِنُ‎ (yuʕanʕinu)

  1. to trace one's origin to
  2. (Islam) to narrate (a ḥadīth) using the preposition عَنْ (ʕan, on the authority of)
    حَدِيثٌ مُعَنْعَنٌḥadīṯun muʕanʕanuna ḥadīth muʿanʿan, i.e. a ḥadīth narrated using the preposition عَنْ (ʕan, on the authority of)
  3. to pronounce the ء (ʔ) like ع (ʕ), in such manner as to pronounce عَنْ (ʕan) instead of أَنْ (ʔan), which is said to have been characteristic of the Tamīm (تَمِيم) tribe

Conjugation[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “عنعن”, 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[1] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 385–386
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عنعن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 731
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “عنعنات”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 760–761

Moroccan Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

عنعن (ʕanʕanm

  1. (childish) car