أم غيلان

Arabic[edit]

Root
غ و ل (ḡ-w-l)

Literally mother of ghouls, that is the abode of ghouls.

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 transifxed and improve the smell of the Nubian ibex and it cuts the smell of the flower.

Declension of noun أُمّ غِيلَان (ʔumm ḡīlān)‎; أُمّ غَيْلَان (ʔumm ḡaylān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	أُمّ غِيلَان‎; أُمّ غَيْلَان ʔumm ḡīlān‎; ʔumm ḡaylān	—
Nominative	—	أُمُّ غِيلَانٍ‎; أُمُّ غَيْلَانَ ʔummu ḡīlānin‎; ʔummu ḡaylāna	—
Accusative	—	أُمَّ غِيلَانٍ‎; أُمَّ غَيْلَانَ ʔumma ḡīlānin‎; ʔumma ḡaylāna	—
Genitive	—	أُمِّ غِيلَانٍ‎; أُمِّ غَيْلَانَ ʔummi ḡīlānin‎; ʔummi ḡaylāna	—

→ Classical Persian: امغیلان (ammuğīlān, ammuğaylān), oftener مغیلان (moğilân, moğaylân)
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: مغیلان
  - Classical Azerbaijani: müğilan
  - Ottoman Turkish: مغیلان (mugaylan)

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