يقطين

Inconspicuous, of a rare pattern yaFʿīL – otherwise found only in يَعْضِيد (yaʕḍīd, “Launaea mucronata”) and يَعْقِيد (yaʕqīd, “thickened honey”) – but connected to the root ق ط ن (q-ṭ-n), so perhaps from a Semitic substrate.

يَقْطِين • (yaqṭīn) m (singulative يَقْطِينَة (yaqṭīna))

1. a variety of squash or gourd
   1. pumpkin
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 37:146:

        وَأَنْبَتْنَا عَلَيْهِ شَجَرَةً مِنْ يَقْطِينٍ

        waʔanbatnā ʕalayhi šajaratan min yaqṭīnin

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “يقطين” in Almaany
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 292
• “Yaqṭīn as substratum vocabulary?”, in Jabal al-Lughat‎, 2018 June 26
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “يقطين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 912

From Arabic يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn).

• IPA^(key): /jaɡ.tˤiːn/

يَقْطين • (yagṭīn) m (collective, singulative يَقْطينة f (yagṭīna), plural يَقْطينات (yagṭīnāt))

1. pumpkin

• قَرْع (garʕ, “squash, gourd”)