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جزن

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to places and possibly a type of wood or plant. The primary focus is on a location in Yemen and a comparison to a similar-sounding word related to wood.

Derived headwords

جازانname
  1. 1.
    Place in Yemenclassical

    A valley in Yemen, after which a present-day village on the Salt Sea was named. It is one of the Yemeni frontiers.

حطب جزنother
  1. 1.
    Type of firewoodclassical

    Refers to a type of firewood, possibly in comparison to or a variant of 'jathal' (جزل).

جزلadjective
  1. 1.
    Solid, strongclassical

    Describing something as solid, strong, or substantial. It is used here in comparison to 'hazn'.

أجزنverb
  1. 1.
    To become solid/strongclassical

    The fourth form of the verb, implying 'to become solid or strong', possibly related to the adjective 'jathal'.

جزنةname
  1. 1.
    City in Zabulistanclassical

    The name of a capital city in Zabulistan, which Arabs refer to as Ghazna.

غزنةname
  1. 1.
    Ghazna (city)classical

    The name by which Arabs call the city of Ghazna, the capital of Zabulistan.

Parallel reading

وهو (واد باليمن)
It is a valley in Yemen.
سميت به القرية الموجودة الآن على البحر الملح
The village now existing on the Salt Sea was named after it.
وهي إحدى الثغور اليمنية
And it is one of the Yemeni frontiers.
وحطب جزن
And 'hazn' firewood.
لغة في (جزل)
A dialectal variant of 'jathal'.
أو نونه بدل من لام جزل
Or its 'nun' is a substitute for the 'lam' of 'jathal'.
ج أجزن
The fourth form is 'ajthana'.
وهذا مما يقوي أن نونه غير بدل
And this strengthens the view that its 'nun' is not a substitute.
جزنة، بالفتح: اسم قصبة زابلستان
Jazana, with the fatha: the name of the capital of Zabulistan.
تسميها العرب غزنة
The Arabs call it Ghazna.
قاله نصر
Nasr said this.