زجاج

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See also: رخاخ

Arabic

Root
ز ج ج (z j j)
3 terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zu.d͡ʒaːd͡ʒ/
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Noun

زُجَاج or زَجَاج or زِجَاج (zujāj or zajāj or zijājm (collective, singulative زُجَاجَة f (zujāja) or زَجَاجَة (zajāja) or زِجَاجَة (zijāja))

  1. glass (substance)
  2. pieces of glass
  3. glass vessels

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: ħġieġ
  • Moroccan Arabic: زاج (zāj), جاج (jāj)

Noun

زَجَّاج (zajjājm (plural زَجَّاجُون (zajjājūn), feminine زَجَّاجَة (zajjāja))

  1. glassmaker

Declension

References

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زُجَاج (zujāj).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? zujāj
Dari reading? zujāj
Iranian reading? zojâj
Tajik reading? zujoj

Noun

زجاج (zojâj)

  1. (archaic) glass
    Synonym: شیشه (šiše)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 97”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      چرا همی‌شکنی جان من ز سنگدلی
      دل ضعیف که باشد به نازکی چو زجاج
      čirā hamē-šikanī jān-i man zi sangdilī
      dil-i za'īf ki bāšad ba nāzukī čū zujāj
      Why is my soul shattering, through hardness of heart,
      My feeble heart, which is like glass in its delicateness?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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