عدن

The sense “Eden” is a borrowing from Biblical Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿḗden). The meaning “to stay, to remain” appears to be denominal verb of عِدَّان (ʕiddān, “set time; set place of staying”), with it of use particular to Bedouins, only the meaning “to strike” the original Arabic meaning, whence transferred “to break up the soil to manure”.

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];

 

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عَدَن • (ʕadan) m

1. Aden (a port city in Yemen)

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

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

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

عَدْن • (ʕadn) m

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

 

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

1. (Yemen, Jazan) Adenium gen. et spp.
   • 2018 April 13, “زهرة عدن”, 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 ʿadana-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)

 

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عدن • ('adan)

1. Eden

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

2. Aden (a city in Yemen)