أفسنتين

Arabic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion).

أَفْسِنْتِين • (ʾafsintīn) m

grande wormwood, absinthe
- c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 16, page 680:
  
  ‏وقيل إن نضح بقدر جرة من ماء الزيتون قدر مائة جرة من الطعام لم يفسد ولم تصبه آفة وإن نضح عليه ماء الأفسنتين بقي ولم يفسد.‎‎
  It is said that when a jar of wheat is dampened with a jar of amurca it does not suffer decay nor damage, and if it is dampened with absinthe water, it stays and does not rot.
the beverage absinthe

Declension of noun أَفْسِنْتِين (ʾafsintīn)

Singular	basic singular diptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَفْسِنْتِين ʾafsintīn	الْأَفْسِنْتِين‎ al-ʾafsintīn	أَفْسِنْتِين ʾafsintīn
Nominative	أَفْسِنْتِينُ ʾafsintīnu	الْأَفْسِنْتِينُ‎ al-ʾafsintīnu	أَفْسِنْتِينُ ʾafsintīnu
Accusative	أَفْسِنْتِينَ ʾafsintīna	الْأَفْسِنْتِينَ‎ al-ʾafsintīna	أَفْسِنْتِينَ ʾafsintīna
Genitive	أَفْسِنْتِينَ ʾafsintīna	الْأَفْسِنْتِينِ‎ al-ʾafsintīni	أَفْسِنْتِينِ ʾafsintīni

Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “أفسنتين”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 29
Freytag, Georg (1830), “أفسنتين”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 43
Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “أفسنتين”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 30

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