تنين

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تنين^¹

/tin.niːn/

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Borrowed from Aramaic תַּנִּינָא / ܬܲܢܝܼܢܵܐ (tannīnā, “sea serpent, monster”), from Akkadian 𒆗𒉌𒈾 (danninu, “netherworld; source of earthquakes; the inaccessible land where the dead remain”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dnn/*tnn (“to be mighty, to be strong; to be fortified, to be long lasting, to stay at a place; to rumble, to earthquake, to shake with a booming noise”). Doublet of دَنْدَن (dandan, “mythical monsterous fish that can swallow everything else in the sea, the biggest fish in the sea”); possibly related as well to Egyptian dnwn (/⁠denwen⁠/, “giant serpent whose body was made of fire defeated by the spirit of the dead pharaoh; symbolic of drought, chaos, and destructive natural forces”) attested in the Pyramid Texts of uncertain origin.

noun تِنِّين · tinnīn · تَنَانِين · التِّنِّين

eel, whale, any scaled animal (obsolete)
sea monster
dragon
(normally اَلتِّنِّين (at-tinnīn)) Draco
waterspout

تنين^²

/tan.niːn/

noun تَنِّين · tannīn · التَّنِّين · تَنِّينٌ

tannin, tannic acid

In English

dragon mythical creature
waterspout tornado that occurs over a body of water
Draco constellation

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {تنين},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}