عدن

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿḗden).

• IPA^(key): /ʕadn/

عَدْن • (ʕadn) m

1. Eden
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 98:8:

     جَزَاؤُهُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ جَنَّٰتُ عَدْنٍ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا أَبَدًا

     jazāʔuhum ʕinda rabbihim jannātu ʕadnin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʔanhāru ḵālidīna fīhā ʔabadan

     Their reward is with their Lord - the gardens of Eden [with] rivers running beneath them - wherein they abide forever.

   • 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Book of Genesis, 2:10:

     وَكَانَ نَهْرٌ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ عَدْنٍ لِيَسْقِيَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ، وَمِنْ هُنَاكَ يَنْقَسِمُ فَيَصِيرُ أَرْبَعَةَ رُؤُوسٍ.

     wakāna nahrun yaḵruju min ʕadnin liyasqiya l-jannata, wamin hunāka yanqasimu fayaṣīru ʔarbaʕata ruʔūsin.

     And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it is parted, and has become four chief [rivers];

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.dan/

عَدَن • (ʕadan) m

1. Aden (a port city, the largest city in Yemen; the former capital of South Yemen)

Denominal verb of عِدَّان (ʕiddān, “set time; set place of staying”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.da.na/

عَدَنَ • (ʕadana) I (non-past يَعْدِنُ (yaʕdinu) or يَعْدُنُ (yaʕdunu), verbal noun عُدُون (ʕudūn))

1. to stay, to bide, to remain

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.da.na/

عَدَنَ • (ʕadana) I (non-past يَعْدِنُ (yaʕdinu) or يَعْدُنُ (yaʕdunu), verbal noun عَدْن (ʕadn))

1. to strike sharply with a hoe or the like
2. to dung, to manure, to fertilize

• IPA^(key): /ʕad.da.na/

عَدَّنَ • (ʕaddana) II (non-past يُعَدِّنُ (yuʕaddinu), verbal noun تَعْدِين (taʕdīn))

1. to dung, to manure, to fertilize
2. to strike sharply (e.g. with the miner’s pickaxe صَاقُور (ṣāqūr)), to mine in

• IPA^(key): /ʕadn/

عَدْن • (ʕadn) m

1. verbal noun of عَدَنَ (ʕadana) (form I)

Probably a local distortion from (the plural of) عُود (ʕūd, “wood; agarwood, any plant with high moisture content”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.dan/

عَدَن • (ʕadan) m (collective, singulative عَدَنَة f (ʕadana))

1. (Yemen, Jazan) Adenium gen. et spp.
   • 2018 April 13, “زهرة عدن [Adenium Obesum]”, in EcoFoci‎^[1]:

     وتعرف أيضا بشجرة عدنة وهي نبات معمر يتواجد في المناطق الجبلية وشبه الجبلية كجزيرة سوقطرى في اليمن ومدينة جازان في السعودية كما توجد كذلك في الهند والصين وبورما.

     It is also known as ʕadana-tree and it is a perennial plant found in mountainous and semi-mountainous regions like Socotra, in Yemen, in the city of Jazan in Saudi-Arabia, and also India, China and Burma.

عدن (form I)

1. عُدْنَ (ʕudna) /ʕud.na/: inflection of عَادَ (ʕāda):
   1. third-person feminine plural past active
   2. second-person feminine plural imperative
2. عِدْنَ (ʕidna) /ʕid.na/: third-person feminine plural past passive of عَادَ (ʕāda)

عِدْنَ • (ʕidna) (form I) /ʕid.na/

1. second-person feminine plural imperative of وَعَدَ (waʕada)

عدن • ('adan)

1. Eden

   باغ عدن ― bâġ-e 'adan ― the Garden of Eden

2. Aden (a port city, the largest city in Yemen; the former capital of South Yemen)