زيتون
العربية
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زيتون¹
- /zaj.tuːn/
Rhymes with -uːn
Where it comes from
Related to زَيْت (zayt, “oil”); but the stem extension, unknown in Arabic morphology, directly relates to Aramaic, where -ōnā forms diminutive nouns; developing there the sense of an “olive tree” found for the simplex across Northwest Semitic to what is attested as Classical Mandaic ࡆࡉࡕࡅࡍࡀ (zētōnā, “little olive tree”) and then attaining based on the idea of the fruit being a miniature olive tree the meaning “olive”, as well as retaining the meaning of an olive tree.
noun زَيْتُون · zaytūn · زَيْتُونَة · الزَّيْتُون
- olive (fruit or tree) وَٱلتِّينِ وَٱلزَّيْتُونِ
زيتون²
- /zaj.tuːn/
Rhymes with -uːn
Where it comes from
Phono-semantic matching from Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.
proper noun زَيْتُون · zaytūn · -
- Zayton, the medieval trade name of the ports of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian, China
In English
- olive fruit
- olive tree tree that produces olives
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