Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

أَتَنَ بِالمَكَانِ, (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ,*) aor. ـُ {يَأْتُنُ}, (Mṣb,) or ـِ, (Ḳ,) inf. n. أُتُونٌ (M, Mṣb, Ḳ) and أَتُنٌ, (Ḳ,) He remained, continued, stayed, or abode, in the place; (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ;*) or became fixed, or settled, therein. (M.)

استأتن [lit.] He (an ass) became a she-ass. (M.) The saying, كَانَ حِمَارَّا فَاسْتَأْتَنَ, said of a man, [lit.] signifies [He was a he ass,] and he became a she ass; meaning † he was mighty, or of high condition, [like the wild he-ass,] and he became base, abject, or vile. (Ṣ, TA.)

Also, (Ṣ, TA,) or استأتن أَتَانَّا, (M,) He (a man) purchased a she-ass; (Ṣ;) he took for himself a she-ass. (Ṣ, M.)

أَتَانٌ (T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ) andإِتَانٌ↓, (Ḳ,) but one should not say أَتَانَةٌ, (ISk, Ṣ, Mṣb,) or this is of rare occurrence, (Ḳ,) occurring in certain of the trads., (IAth,) A she-ass [domestic or wild]: (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ:) pl. (of pauc., T, Ṣ, Mṣb) آتُنٌ and (of mult., T, Ṣ, Mṣb) أُتُنٌ (T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ) and أُتْنٌ and (quasi-pl. n., M) مَأْتُونَآءُ↓. (Ṣ, M, Ḳ.)

Hence, أَتَانٌ signifies ‡ A foolish and soft or weak woman; as being likened to a she-ass. (TA.)

Also The station of the drawer of water at the mouth of the well; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) and soإِتَانٌ↓. (M, Ḳ.) And A rock, or great mass of stone, (AA, T, Ṣ, M,) in water; (AA, T, M;) or, as some say, at the bottom of the casing of a well, so that it is next the water. (AA, T.) And A large, round mass of rock, which, when it is in shallow water, is called أَتَانُ الضَّحلِ; and a she camel is likened thereto, in respect of her hardness: (Ṣ:) or أَتَانُ الضَّحلِ signifies a large mass of rock projecting from the water. (T:) or a mass of rock, (M, Ḳ, TA,) large and round, in the water, (TA,) at the mouth of the well, overspread with [the green substance called] طُحْلُب, so that it is smooth, (M, Ḳ, TA,) more smooth than other parts: (M, TA:) or a mass of rock, part of which is immerged (غَامِرٌ, M, Ḳ) in the water, (Ḳ,) and part apparent. (M, Ḳ.) And أَتَانُ الثَّمِيلِ signifies A large mass of rock in the interior of the water-course, which nothing raises or moves, of the measure of the stature of a man in length and likewise in breadth. (ISh.)

Also The [piece of wood called] قَاعِدَة [which is one of four forming the support] of the فَوْدَج [more commonly called هَوْدَج, q. v.]: pl. آتُنٌ, (Ḳ, TA,) with medd. (TA: [but in the CK اُتُنٌ.])

أَتُونٌ (T, M, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ) and أَتُّونٌ, (Ḳ,) or, accord. to J, (Mṣb,) it is thus, with teshdeed, but pronounced without teshdeed by the vulgar, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) A certain place in which fire is kindled, (Ṣ, Mgh,) called in Persian كُلَخْن [or كُلْخَنْ], pertaining to a bath: and metaphorically applied to ‡ that in which bricks are baked, and called in Persian تُونَقْ and دَاشُوزَنْ [or simply تُونْ and دَاشْ]: (Mgh:) accord. to Az, (Mṣb,) it is that of the bath, and of the place in which gypsum is made: (T, Mṣb:) or the trench, hollow, or pit, of the جَيَّارَ [or lime-burner, (in the CK, erroneously, the خَبّاز,)] and of the preparer of gypsum; (M, Ḳ, TA;) and the like: (Ḳ:) the pl. [said in the TA to be of the latter, but it is implied in the T and M and Mgh that it is of the former,] is أَتَاتِينُ, (T, Ṣ, M, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ, [in the CK, erroneously, اَتانِيْنُ,]) by common consent of the Arabs, (Mgh,) with two ت s, (T,) accord. to Fr, who says that they sometimes double a letter in the pl. when they do not double it in the sing., (T,) and accord. to IJ, who says that it seems as though they changed أَتُونٌ to أَتُّونٌ; (M;) and [of أَتُونٌ, as is said in the TA and implied in the M,] أُتُنٌ. (M, Ḳ.) [J says that] it is said to be post-classical; (Ṣ;) [and ISd says,] I do not think it to be Arabic. (M.)