عَدَانٌ
Root: عدن
Full Definition
2 Also The shore of the sea: but in the phrase بِعَدَانِ السِّيفِ in a verse of Lebeed, it is said that he meant عَدَن [of El-Yemen], adding the ا by poetic license; or some other place: Sh says that is there means a place on the shore of the sea: and AHeyth related it with kesr to the ع. And accord. to IAar it signifies The side of a river.
def.2 And A period of seven years: one says, مَكَثُوا عَدَانًا [They tarried during a period of seven years], and عَدَانَيْنِ i. e. fourteen years.
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