فنطاس

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Arabic

Etymology

With well-known augmented alveolar nasal between a first and second radical from the root ف ط س (f-ṭ-s) in its meaning of flatness, being trodden down, having a depression – although by now this connection is not necessarily there and containers denoted by this word are as well bulky.

Pronunciation

Noun

فِنْطَاس (finṭāsm (plural فَنَاطِيس (fanāṭīs))

  1. tank, reservoir, cistern
  2. trough
  3. crate, large container
  4. (definite) Al-Finṭās an area in Kuwait

Declension

Derived terms

  • English: fantass

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فنطاس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 376
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فنطاس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 638
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فنطاس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2449
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فنطاس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 983