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طِين
mud, clay /ˈtˤiːn/
nounB2#3418 most common
Also: mire, loam
Example sentences
البُيُوتُ القَديمَةُ مَبنِيَّةٌ مِنْ طِين.
The old houses are built of mud.
لَعِبَ الوَلَدُ بِالطِّينِ بَعْدَ المَطَر.
The boy played with mud after the rain.
عَلِقَتْ عَجَلَاتُ السَّيَّارَةِ فِي الطِّينِ.
The car's wheels got stuck in the mud.
يَصْنَعُ الحَرَفِيُّونَ الفَخَّارَ مِنَ الطِّينِ.
Craftsmen make pottery from clay.
وَرَدَ فِي القُرْآنِ أَنَّ اللهَ خَلَقَ آدَمَ مِنْ طِينٍ.
The Quran states that God created Adam from clay.
يُشَبِّهُ الشُّعَرَاءُ الجَسَدَ الفَانِيَ بِالطِّينِ الَّذِي يَعُودُ إِلَى الأَرْضِ.
Poets liken the mortal body to the clay that returns to the earth.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طِينٌ | أَطْيَانٌ |
| Genitive | طِينٍ | أَطْيَانٍ |
| Accusative | طِيناً | أَطْيَاناً |
| Vocative | يا طِينُ | يا أَطْيَانُ |
Word family
طِينَةa lump of clay; one's inherent nature
طِينِيّmade of clay, earthen
طَيَّنto plaster or coat with mud
أَطْيَانagricultural lands, plots of land
Etymology
Ṭīn comes from the Semitic root ṭ-y-n, a basic word for soft wet earth found across Arabic and Aramaic. Classical Arabic dictionaries treat it as a simple, underived noun for the substance itself, not a word built from a verb. The Quran uses it for the material from which Adam was formed, which fixed its symbolic link to human origin and mortality. It has no link to Indo-European vocabulary, since Semitic root systems developed on a separate line.
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