finjan

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English

Noun

finjan (plural finjans)

  1. In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.
    • 1853, Habeeb Risk Allah Effendi, The thistle and the cedar of Lebanon, page 21:
      On each side is a tray, covered with a snoy napkin, the edges worked with gold and silver flowers, upon one are handsome finjans in filigree, silver coffee-cups, and sugar-basins; on the other, cut-glass saucers full of delicious candied sweetmeats, of which the orange- flower, violet and rose are the most fragrant.
    • 1961, R. Leslie Gourse, With gall and honey, page 76:
      Luis spooned Turkish coffee and sugar into a finjan and, after lighting the stoves in an accomplished manner, he cooked the eggs and boiled the coffee three times.
    • 2015, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain:
      The coffee-shops were already crowded with lean and hungry customers, the pipes were filled and lighted, and the coffee smoked in the finjans.

Alternative forms

Spanish

Verb

finjan

  1. inflection of fingir:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
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