بُسْتَانٌ
Root: بسأ
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بُسْتَانٌ
[accord. to its etymology and to general modern usage, A garden of sweet-scented flowers and trees: but accord. to the Arabic Lexicons,] a [garden such as is termed] جَنَّة: or a [garden, or walled garden, such as is termed] حَدِيقَة, of palm-trees; as in a poem of El-Aashà: said by Fr to be an Arabic word; but this is denied by IDrd: and said by some to be رُومِىّ [or Greek]: [but correctly] it is an arabicized word, from [the Persian] بُوسْتَانٌ [bóstán]; (K, [in which the ن is regarded as a radical letter,] Shifá el-Ghaleel, MF,) meaning “taking odour, or fragrance,” or, as some say, “a place where odour, or fragrance, collects, or is collected:” its composition from بو and ستان requires the former meaning to be assigned to it: [or rather it signifies “a place of odour, or fragrance:”] afterwards applied to trees: pl. بَسَاتِينُ and بَسَاتُونَ, like شَيَاطِينُ and شَيَاطُونَ.
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