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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ʕYN عين 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʕYN 
“root” 
▪ ʕYN_1 ‘eye’ ↗ʕayn
▪ ʕYN_2 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ ʕYN_3 ‘fountain, clear flowing water’ ↗maʕīn

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘eye, eyesight, to see, to have beautiful eyes, to injure the eye, to give the evil eye, to spy, to ascertain, notables; water spring; group of brothers’ 
▪ ʕYN_1 : (Kogan2011:) from protSem *ʕayn‑ ‘eye’.
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ʕayn عَيْن 
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√ʕYN 
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… – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Kogan2015 (Sw#25): from protSem *ʕayn‑ ‘eye’ (SED I #28). Passim throughout Sem.
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘eye’) Akk ēnu, Hbr ʕáyin, Syr ʕaynā, Gz ʕayn.
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maʕīn مَعِين 
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√ʕYN, MʕN
 
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fountain, clear flowing water – Jeffery1938 
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▪ eC7 Q xxiii, 52; xxxv’u, 44; lvi, 18; lxvii, 30 – Jeffery1938.
 
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▪ Jeffery1938: »It occurs only in early and middle Meccan passages. / The philologers were uncertain whether it was a form faʕīl from ↗maʕana ‘to flow’, or connected with ↗māʕūn, or from ↗ʕāna, so called because of its clearness, cf. Zam. on xxiii, 52, and LA, xvii, 179, 298. / The word ʕyn for a ‘spring of water’ is of course comSem, but Fraenkel, Fremdw, 281, noted that the Qurʔānic maʕīn is the Hbr maʕyān, Syr mʕīnā = Grk ‘pēgḗ’, commonly used for ‘spring, bubbling fountain’. From one of these sources, probably from the Syr, it came into Ar.«
 
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ġayn غين 
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The letter ġ of the Arabic alphabet. 
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