خدن

Arabic
FWOTD – 3 July 2022

Etymology

Univerbation of أَخٌ دَانٍ (ʔaḵun dānin), literally “close brother”.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /xidn/

Noun

خِدْن • (ḵidn) m or f (plural أَخْدَان (ʔaḵdān)) (countable, archaic)

  1. a close friend, an intimate
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ar:friend
  2. an amorous companion, a boyfriend or girlfriend; a bedmate

Declension
Declension of noun خِدْن (ḵidn)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal خِدْن
ḵidn		 الْخِدْن
al-ḵidn		 خِدْن
ḵidn
Nominative خِدْنٌ
ḵidnun		 الْخِدْنُ
al-ḵidnu		 خِدْنُ
ḵidnu
Accusative خِدْنًا
ḵidnan		 الْخِدْنَ
al-ḵidna		 خِدْنَ
ḵidna
Genitive خِدْنٍ
ḵidnin		 الْخِدْنِ
al-ḵidni		 خِدْنِ
ḵidni
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal خِدْنَيْن
ḵidnayn		 الْخِدْنَيْن
al-ḵidnayn		 خِدْنَيْ
ḵidnay
Nominative خِدْنَانِ
ḵidnāni		 الْخِدْنَانِ
al-ḵidnāni		 خِدْنَا
ḵidnā
Accusative خِدْنَيْنِ
ḵidnayni		 الْخِدْنَيْنِ
al-ḵidnayni		 خِدْنَيْ
ḵidnay
Genitive خِدْنَيْنِ
ḵidnayni		 الْخِدْنَيْنِ
al-ḵidnayni		 خِدْنَيْ
ḵidnay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal أَخْدَان
ʔaḵdān		 الْأَخْدَان
al-ʔaḵdān		 أَخْدَان
ʔaḵdān
Nominative أَخْدَانٌ
ʔaḵdānun		 الْأَخْدَانُ
al-ʔaḵdānu		 أَخْدَانُ
ʔaḵdānu
Accusative أَخْدَانًا
ʔaḵdānan		 الْأَخْدَانَ
al-ʔaḵdāna		 أَخْدَانَ
ʔaḵdāna
Genitive أَخْدَانٍ
ʔaḵdānin		 الْأَخْدَانِ
al-ʔaḵdāni		 أَخْدَانِ
ʔaḵdāni

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:خدن.

Alternative forms
  • خَدِين (ḵadīn)

Derived terms
  • خُدْنَة (ḵudna, “one who associates with people as their خِدْن (ḵidn) much”)
  • أَخْدَن (ʔaḵdan, “provided with أَخْدَان (ʔaḵdān)”)
  • خَادَنَ (ḵādana, “to be private friends with”)

References
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 398
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خدن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 468a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خدن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 548b–549a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خدن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 712
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “خدن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 268a
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