زَّيْتُون

zayotuwnN * [The olive-tree; ] a certain kind of tree, (Msb, K, *) well known, (S, Msb,) whence zayot is obtained; (S, Msb, K;) [ a tree ] of the kind called EiDaAh ; (AHn, Mgh, TA;) As says, on the authority of 'Abd-El-Melik Ibn-Sálih Ibn-'Alee, that a single tree of this kind lasts thirty thousand years; and that every tree of this kind in Palestine was planted by the ancient Greeks who are called the Yoonánees: (TA:) and the fruit of that tree: (Mgh:) or it has the latter signification, and is tropically applied to the tree: or it properly has both of these significations: (TA:) [it is a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with p : (S, TA:) accord. to some, the n is a radical letter, and the Y is augmentative, because they said ArD ztnp [i. e. A^aroDN zatinapN , like A^aroDN EaDihapN from AlEiDaAhu ], meaning “ a land in which are zayotuwn ; ” so that the measure is fayoEuwlN ; and if so, its proper place is art. ztn . (TA.) Respecting the phrase in the Kur xcv. l, waAlt~iyni waAlz~ayotuwni , see tiynN . ― -b2- [ zayotuwnu baniY A_isoraAy^iyla Lapis Judaicus: so called because resembling an olive in shape, and found in Judæa.]