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مِطْهَن

míṭhɛn (du. miṭέni, pl. máṭan)

basic morphological information

n. (f.)

a shrub (Buxanthus pedicellatus)
вид кустарника
نوع من أنواع الشجر

Miller–Morris 2004:472–473; CSOL II 545

text examples

wa-ḷaṭ šedέro be-mešéḳhoḷ ḥaʰ di-ḥímhɛr wa-ḥaʰ míṭhɛn wa-ḥaʰ ẓ̂áˀed ‘And then it (the house) was roofed with tree trunks: some of them of ḥímhɛr, some of them of míṭhɛn, and some of them of Ziziphus’ (CSOL II 27:3)

root

mṭn

etymology

Hard to separate from Jib. móṭín ‘a small evergreen tree (Olea europaea)’, in spite of the botanical difference.