jacan

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Cypriot Arabic

Root
j-v-c
4 terms

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic جَوْعَان (jawʕān).

Adjective

jacán (feminine jacane, masculine plural jacanín)

  1. hungry

References

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 190

Spanish

Verb

jacan

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