Editing Batroun (section)

== Etymology ==

''Batroun'' appears in [[Western Aramaic]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon |url=https://cal.huc.edu/ |website=cal.huc.edu}}</ref> and is attested in as ''bṯrwn'' ({{langx|ar|بثرون}}) in premodern Arabic texts, with the expected [[begadkefat|lenition of t]] for an Aramaic term.<ref name="The 'Aramaic Substrate' Hypothesis">{{cite journal |last1=Pat-El |first1=Naʾama |last2=Stokes |first2=Phillip W |title=The 'Aramaic Substrate' Hypothesis in the Levant Revisited |journal=Journal of Semitic Studies |date=24 August 2022 |volume=67 |issue=2 |page=24 |doi=10.1093/jss/fgac002}}</ref> Elie Mardini suggests the shift of the th to t in [[Aramaic]] terms in the Levant is due to the merger of certain fricatives in [[Levantine Arabic]].<ref name="The 'Aramaic Substrate' Hypothesis"/>