زَيْتُونٌ
Root: زيت
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زَيْتُونٌ
[The olive-tree;] a certain kind of tree, well known, whence
زَيْت
is obtained; [a tree] of the kind called
عِضَاه; As says, on the authority of 'Abd-El-Melik Ibn-Sálih Ibn-'Alee, that a single tree of this kind lasts thirty thousand years; and that every tree of this kind in Palestine was planted by the ancient Greeks who are called the Yoonánees: and the fruit of that tree: or it has the latter signification, and is tropically applied to the tree: or it properly has both of these significations: [it is a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة: accord. to some, the ن is a radical letter, and the ى is augmentative, because they said ارض زتنة [i. e. أَرْضٌ زَتِنَةٌ, like أَرْضٌ عَضِهَةٌ from العِضَاهُ], meaning “ a land in which are زَيْتُون; ” so that the measure is فَيْعُولٌ; and if so, its proper place is art. زتن. Respecting the phrase in the Kur xcv. l, وَالتِّينِ وَالزَّيْتُونِ, see تِينٌ.
2 [زَيْتُونُ بَنِى إِسْرَائِيلَ Lapis Judaicus: so called because resembling an olive in shape, and found in Judæa.]
2 [زَيْتُونُ بَنِى إِسْرَائِيلَ Lapis Judaicus: so called because resembling an olive in shape, and found in Judæa.]
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