ا • ت • ن

, (S, M, Msb, K, *) aor. اَتُنَ , (Msb,) or اَتِنَ , (K,) inf. n. أُتُونٌ (M, Msb, K) and أَتُنٌ, (K,) He remained, continued, stayed, or abode, in the place; (S, M, Msb, K; *) or became fixed, or settled, therein. (M.)

[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 (assumed tropical:) he was mighty, or of high condition, [like the wild he-ass,] and he became base, abject, or vile. (S, TA.) Also, (S, TA,) or استأتن أَتَانَّا, (M,) He (a man) purchased a she-ass; (S;) he took for himself a she-ass. (S, M.)

(T, S, M, Msb, K) and ↓ إِتَانٌ, (K,) but one should not say أَتَانَةٌ, (ISk, S, Msb,) or this is of rare occurrence, (K,) occurring in certain of the trads., (IAth,) A she-ass [domestic or wild]: (S, M, Msb, K:) pl. (of pauc., T, S, Msb) اتُنٌ and (of mult., T, S, Msb) أُتُنٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and أُتْنٌ and (quasi-pl. n., M) ↓ مَأْتُونَاءُ. (S, M, K.) Hence, أَتَانٌ signifies (tropical:) 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; (S, M, K;) and so ↓ إِتَانٌ. (M, K.) And A rock, or great mass of stone, (AA, T, S, 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: (S:) or أَتَانُ الضَّحلِ signifies a large mass of rock projecting from the water. (T:) or a mass of rock, (M, K, 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, K, TA,) more smooth than other parts: (M, TA:) or a mass of rock, part of which is immerged (غَامِرٌ, M, K) in the water, (K,) and part apparent. (M, K.) 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. اتُنٌ, (K, TA,) with medd. (TA: [but in the CK اُتُنٌ.])

(T, M, Mgh, Msb, K) and أَتُّونٌ, (K,) or, accord. to J, (Msb,) it is thus, with teshdeed, but pronounced without teshdeed by the vulgar, (S, Msb,) A certain place in which fire is kindled, (S, Mgh,) called in Persian كُلَخْن [or كُلْخَنْ], pertaining to a bath: and metaphorically applied to (tropical:) that in which bricks are baked, and called in Persian تُونَقْ and دَاشُوزَنْ [or simply تُونْ and دَاشْ]: (Mgh:) accord. to Az, (Msb,) it is that of the bath, and of the place in which gypsum is made: (T, Msb:) 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, K, TA;) and the like: (K:) 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, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, اَتانِيْنُ,]) by common consent of the Arabs, (Mgh,) with two تs, (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, K.) [J says that] it is said to be post-classical; (S;) [and ISd says,] I do not think it to be Arabic. (M.)

: see أَتَانٌ, in two places.

: see أَتَانٌ.