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Arabic
Etymology
From Middle Persian *dahanag (Classical Persian دهنه (dahana)).
Pronunciation
Noun
دَهْنَج • (dahnaj) m
- malachite
Declension
Declension of noun دَهْنَج (dahnaj)
| Singular
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basic singular triptote
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| Indefinite
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Definite
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Construct
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| Informal
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دَهْنَج
dahnaj
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الدَّهْنَج
ad-dahnaj
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دَهْنَج
dahnaj
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| Nominative
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دَهْنَجٌ
dahnajun
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الدَّهْنَجُ
ad-dahnaju
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دَهْنَجُ
dahnaju
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| Accusative
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دَهْنَجًا
dahnajan
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الدَّهْنَجَ
ad-dahnaja
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دَهْنَجَ
dahnaja
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| Genitive
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دَهْنَجٍ
dahnajin
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الدَّهْنَجِ
ad-dahnaji
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دَهْنَجِ
dahnaji
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Further reading
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian دهنج (dahnaj, “malachite”).
Noun
دهنج • (dehnec)
- (mineralogy) malachite, a bright green mineral and one of the principal ores of copper.
- Synonym: باقر طاشی (bakır taşı)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Molochites”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1072
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دهنج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2204
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دهنج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 931