# ردن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1

Unknown. Apparently primarily a colour term, applied to fibres because they were yellowish in their natural states, given Safaitic 𐪇𐪕𐪌 (rdn /⁠radan⁠/, “yellowish-red colour”).

#### Noun

رَدَن • (radan) m (plural أَرْدَان (ʔardān))
* thread spun
* (botany, rare) stamen
* (obsolete) saffron (as also رَادِن (rādin))

##### Derived terms

* رَدَنَ (radana, “to spin”)
* مِرْدَن (mirdan, “spindle”)
* رَدَّانَة (raddāna, “spindle”)

### Etymology 1.2

Denominal verb of رَدَن (radan).

#### Verb

رَدَنَ • (radana) I (non-past يَرْدِنُ (yardinu), verbal noun رَدْن (radn))
* to spin

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.3
#### Noun

رَدْن • (radn) m
* verbal noun of رَدَنَ (radana, “to spin”) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 1.4

Denominal verb of مِرْدَن (mirdan) or رَدَّانَة (raddāna).

#### Verb

رَدَّنَ • (raddana) II (non-past يُرَدِّنُ (yuraddinu), verbal noun تَرْدِين (tardīn)) (rare)
* to make a spindle

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2.1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

رَدَنَ • (radana) I (non-past يَرْدُنُ (yardunu), verbal noun رَدْن (radn)) (rare)
* to put into order, to set together

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2.2
#### Noun

رَدْن • (radn) m
* verbal noun of رَدَنَ (radana, “to put into order”) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3.1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

رَدَنَ • (radana) I (non-past يَرْدِنُ (yardinu), verbal noun رَدْن (radn)) (rare)
* to cause to smoke

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3.2
#### Noun

رَدْن • (radn) m
* verbal noun of رَدَنَ (radana, “to cause to smoke”) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 4.1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

رَدِنَ • (radina) I (non-past يَرْدَنُ (yardanu), verbal noun رَدَن (radan)) (rare)
* to become wrinkled, to become shrunk, to become corrugated

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 4.2
#### Noun

رَدَن • (radan) m
* verbal noun of رَدِنَ (radina, “to become wrinkled”) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 5.1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

رُدْن • (rudn) m (plural أَرْدَان (ʔardān))
* sleeve

##### Declension
### Etymology 5.2

Denominal verb of رُدْن (rudn).

#### Verb

رَدَّنَ • (raddana) II (non-past يُرَدِّنُ (yuraddinu), verbal noun تَرْدِين (tardīn))
* to sleeve

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 6.1

Probably an Aramaic onomatopoeic formation, given רדנ (rdn, “to murmur (?)”) in the Targum Jonathan.

#### Verb

رَدَنَ • (radana) I (non-past يَرْدِنُ (yardinu), verbal noun رَدْن (radn))
* to purr, to murmur

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 6.2
#### Noun

رَدْن • (radn) m
* verbal noun of رَدَنَ (radana, “to purr”) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

رِدْنَ • (ridna) (form I) /rid.na/
* second-person feminine plural imperative of وَرَدَ (warada)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ردن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 522
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 41
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “ردن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 141
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “ردن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1070
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ردن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 465
* “mrdn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* “rdn$^2$”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986– “to murmur”