أَتُونٌ

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أَتُونٌ and أَتُّونٌ, or, accord. to J, it is thus, with teshdeed, but pronounced without teshdeed by the vulgar, A certain place in which fire is kindled, called in Persian كُلَخْن [or كُلْخَنْ], pertaining to a bath: and metaphorically applied to that in which bricks are baked, and called in Persian تُونَقْ and دَاشُوزَنْ [or simply تُونْ and دَاشْ]: accord. to Az, it is that of the bath, and of the place in which gypsum is made: or the trench, hollow, or pit, of the جَيَّارَ [or lime-burner, (in the CK, erroneously, the خَبّاز,]) and of the preparer of gypsum; and the like: the pl. [said in the TA to be of the latter, but it is implied in the T and M and Mgh that it is of the former,] is أَتَاتِينُ, (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, اَتانِيْنُ,]) by common consent of the Arabs, with two تs, accord. to Fr, who says that they sometimes double a letter in the pl. when they do not double it in the sing., and accord. to IJ, who says that it seems as though they changed أَتُونٌ to أَتُّونٌ; and [of أَتُونٌ, as is said in the TA and implied in the M,] أُتُنٌ. [J says that] it is said to be post-classical; [and ISd says,] I do not think it to be Arabic.

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