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فدن

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of grandeur, height, and cultivation. It encompasses meanings like a fortified palace, a specific type of red dye, and agricultural tools or animals used for plowing. It also extends to the idea of fattening or making something substantial.

Derived headwords

الفَدَنُnoun
  1. 1.
    Red dyeclassical

    A red dye.

  2. 2.
    Fortified palaceclassical

    A well-built, fortified palace or mansion.

أَفْدَانُnoun
  1. 1.
    Palacesclassical

    The plural of 'fadan', referring to palaces or fortified buildings.

كما تراطن في أفدانها الروم — As the Romans conversed in their palaces.
جاؤوا جمال كأنها أفدان — They came, camels as if they were palaces.
الفَدِينُname
  1. 1.
    Place nameclassical

    A place name, specifically a location on the bank of the Khabur river.

الفَدَّانُnoun
  1. 1.
    Oxclassical

    An ox, specifically one used for plowing.

  2. 2.
    Pair of oxenclassical

    A pair of oxen yoked together for plowing.

  3. 3.
    Plowing implementclassical

    The implement or yoke used to harness a pair of oxen for plowing.

  4. 4.
    Area of landclassical

    A specific measure of land, equivalent to twenty-four qirats.

ولا يقال للواحد فدان — And the singular is not called 'faddan'.
فَدَّادِينَnoun
  1. 1.
    Plow oxenclassical

    The plural of 'faddan', referring to oxen used for plowing.

  2. 2.
    Farmersclassical

    Those who own or work with the plowing oxen.

فَدَّانُnoun
  1. 1.
    Plowing implementclassical

    The implement used for plowing, referring to the yoke and harness of oxen.

العيان حديدة تكون في متاع الفدان — Al-'ayyan is an iron piece that is part of the equipment of the plowing implement.
أَفْدِنَةًnoun
  1. 1.
    Plowing implementsclassical

    The plural of 'faddan' (the plowing implement), referring to multiple such tools.

فَدَنَverb
  1. 1.
    To be like a palaceclassical

    To be tall, grand, or fortified like a palace.

تَفْدِينٌnoun
  1. 1.
    Fattening camelsclassical

    The act of fattening camels, making them robust and substantial.

  2. 2.
    Lengthening buildingsclassical

    The act of making a building tall or extending its construction.

التفدين: تسمين الإبل — Al-tafdeen: fattening the camels.
التفدين: تطويل البناء — Al-tafdeen: lengthening the building.
مُفَدَّنٌadjective
  1. 1.
    Fat (camels)classical

    Camels that have been fattened.

  2. 2.
    Tall (building)classical

    A building that has been made tall or extended.

بناء مفدن — A tall building.
فَدَّنَهُverb
  1. 1.
    To fatten (camels)classical

    To make camels fat and robust through feeding.

  2. 2.
    To make tall (building)classical

    To make a building tall or extend its construction.

فدنه الرعي تفدينا — Grazing made it fat, like a palace.
الفَدَّانُnoun
  1. 1.
    Farm/Fieldclassical

    A piece of cultivated land, a farm or field.

ثَوْبٌ مُفَدَّنٌadjective
  1. 1.
    Dyed with red dyeclassical

    A garment that has been dyed with the red dye known as 'fadan'.

Parallel reading

ينبي تجاليدي وأقتادهاناو كرأس الفدن المؤيد
My traditions and my reins inform, like the head of the fortified palace.
كما تراطن في أفدانها الروم
As the Romans conversed in their palaces.
جاؤوا جمال كأنها أفدان
They came, camels as if they were palaces.
لولا الفدان لم تبن الأفدان
If not for the plowing implement, the palaces would not be built.
وفدين، (كزبير: ة بشاطىء الخابور.
And Fidin, like Zubayr: a place on the bank of the Khabur.
الفدان، (كسحاب وشداد: الثور.
Al-faddan, like Sahab and Shaddad: the ox.
أو الفدان: الثوران يقرن للحرث بينهما.
Or al-faddan: the two oxen yoked together for plowing.
ولا يقال للواحد فدان.
And the singular is not called 'faddan'.
أو هو، أي الفدان، آلة الثورين تجمع أداتهما في القران للحرث.
Or it, meaning al-faddan, is the implement of the two oxen, gathering their equipment for yoking for plowing.
الفدادين، وهي البقر التي يحرث بها.
Al-faddadin, which are the cattle used for plowing.
أسود كالليل وليس بالليل له جناحان وليس بالطيريجر فدانا وليس بالثور
Black as night, yet not night; it has two wings, yet is not a bird; it pulls a faddan, yet is not an ox.
فجمع بين الراء واللام في القافية وشدد الفدان.
And he combined the 'ra' and 'lam' in the rhyme and stressed al-faddan.
العيان حديدة تكون في متاع الفدان
Al-'ayyan is an iron piece that is part of the equipment of the plowing implement.
فأما الفدان، بالتشديد، فهو المبلغ المتعارف، وهو أيضا: الثور الذي يحرث به.
As for al-faddan, with stress, it is the customary measure, and it is also: the ox used for plowing.
الفدان، بالتخفيف، الآلة التي يحرث بها
Al-faddan, with lenition, is the implement used for plowing.
ثم استعير منه الفدان، بالتشديد، لجزء من الأرض المحدودة على أربعة وعشرين قيراطا
Then al-faddan, with stress, was metaphorically used for a portion of land limited to twenty-four qirats.
والفدادون: ذكر في الدال، أو هم أصحاب الفدادين، كما يقال: الجمالون لأصحاب الجمال
And al-faddadun: mentioned under 'Dal', or they are the owners of the faddadin, as it is said: al-jammalun for the owners of camels.
التفدين: تسمين الإبل.
Al-tafdeen: fattening the camels.
وقد فدنه الرعي تفدينا: سمنه وصيره كالفدن، أي القصر.
And grazing made it fat, like a palace, meaning tall.
التفدين: تطويل البناء.
Al-tafdeen: lengthening the building.
يقال: بناء مفدن.
It is said: a tall building.
الفدان: المزرعة.
Al-faddan: the farm/field.
وثوب مفدن: صبغ بالفدن.
And a garment made fadan: dyed with al-fadan.