سجنجل

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Arabic

سَجَنْجَل

Etymology

Manfred Ullmann expounded in an analysis of the occurrences that all known poets who use this word after Imru' al-Qais owe it to him, and using it as “round mirror” they actually misunderstood him, who in his verse actually meant sheeny papyrus leaves, forming a *سِجِلْجِل (*sijiljil), *سَجَلْجَل (*sajaljal) after the known سِجِلّ (sijill, “scroll”) which was dissimilated to سَجَنْجَل (sajanjal); only thus far it is a Byzantine Greek word as it was believed in the Middle Ages to be رُومِيّ (rūmiyy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.d͡ʒan.d͡ʒal/

Noun

سَجَنْجَل • (sajanjal) m (obsolete, poetic)

  1. mirror, looking-glass
    Synonyms: (the normal word) مِرْآة (mirʔāh), (poetic) مَاوِيَّة (māwiyya), (dialect) مِنْظَرَة (minẓara)
  2. glossy papyrus, pages or sheets with a shine or glaze, glistening surface
    • 6th century CE, اِمْرُؤ ٱلْقَيْس (imruʔ l-qays), Stop, Let Us Weep قِفَا نَبْكِ (qifā nabki):
      مُهَفْهَفَةٌ بَيْضَاءُ غَيْرُ مُفَاضَةٍ / تَرَائِبُهَا مَصْقُولَةٌ كَٱلسَّجَنْجَلِ
      muhafhafatun bayḍāʔu ḡayru mufāḍatin / tarāʔibuhā maṣqūlatun kas-sajanjali
      Slender, fair-colored, not obese / Her collar bone gleaming like the glossy page.

Declension

Declension of noun سَجَنْجَل (sajanjal)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal سَجَنْجَل
sajanjal 		السَّجَنْجَل
as-sajanjal 		سَجَنْجَل
sajanjal
Nominative سَجَنْجَلٌ
sajanjalun 		السَّجَنْجَلُ
as-sajanjalu 		سَجَنْجَلُ
sajanjalu
Accusative سَجَنْجَلًا
sajanjalan 		السَّجَنْجَلَ
as-sajanjala 		سَجَنْجَلَ
sajanjala
Genitive سَجَنْجَلٍ
sajanjalin 		السَّجَنْجَلِ
as-sajanjali 		سَجَنْجَلِ
sajanjali

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 8
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 97
  • Ullmann, Manfred (1992) Das Motiv des Spiegels in der arabischen Literatur des Mittelalters (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen: Philologisch-historische Klasse; 198) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 17–30
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