قنجة

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Shortened from Ottoman Turkish قانجه‌باش (kancabaş, “ship of a curved prow”) from قانجه (kanca, “hook”) +‎ باش (baş, “prow”), so called because of its prow being curved like a hook.

Pronunciation

Noun

قَنْجَة • (qanja) f (plural قَنْجَات (qanjāt) or قِنَاج (qināj) or قَنْجِيَّات (qanjiyyāt))

  1. a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips, for example on the Nile by sultans or rented by upper-class Britons
    • 2012 October 14, “الملاحة النيلية: في مصر العثمانيـة [Seafaring in Ottoman Egypt]”, in Arabic Magazine‎, archived from the original on 2019-05-02:
      القنجيات: مفردها قنجة وهي مراكب للزينة ذات رياش وزخرفة زائدة وهي ضخمة الحجم وسريعة الحركة وخفيفة، وتستخدم المجاديف إلى جانب صارية أو صاريتين، ومنها ما هو مكشوف، ومنها ما هو مغطى، وقد استخدمها الأمراء في مصر العثمانية للزينة والنزهات، ثم عرفت منها أنواع أخرى تحمل المسافرين في النيل، وبمؤخرة هذه السفن غرفة أو غرفتان للمسافرين، وتسير بسرعة كبيرة، وقد ذكر البعض أنها تقطع مسافة من القاهرة إلى الإسكندرية في 24 ساعة وذلك لخفتها وتسطيحها وكان ذلك يجعل الريح الشديدة تشكل خطراً عليها.
      The qanjiyyat – one: qanja – are ornamental vessels having additional feathers and adornments, and they are of a thick volume and fast in movement but light, and oars are used at the side of a mast or two masts, and there is an open one and a covered one, and the Ottoman princes in Egypt used them for beauty and for trips, then other types were known born by travellers on the nile: the sterns of these ships had a room or two for travellers, and they drove with great speed, and some mention that they travel a distance from Cairo to Alexandria in 24 hours and that is for their lightness and flatness, and in this a heavy wind could represent a danger for such a vessel.

Declension

Declension of noun قَنْجَة (qanja)
Singular singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قَنْجَة
qanja 		الْقَنْجَة
al-qanja 		قَنْجَة
qanjat
Nominative قَنْجَةٌ
qanjatun 		الْقَنْجَةُ
al-qanjatu 		قَنْجَةُ
qanjatu
Accusative قَنْجَةً
qanjatan 		الْقَنْجَةَ
al-qanjata 		قَنْجَةَ
qanjata
Genitive قَنْجَةٍ
qanjatin 		الْقَنْجَةِ
al-qanjati 		قَنْجَةِ
qanjati
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قَنْجَتَيْن
qanjatayn 		الْقَنْجَتَيْن
al-qanjatayn 		قَنْجَتَيْ
qanjatay
Nominative قَنْجَتَانِ
qanjatāni 		الْقَنْجَتَانِ
al-qanjatāni 		قَنْجَتَا
qanjatā
Accusative قَنْجَتَيْنِ
qanjatayni 		الْقَنْجَتَيْنِ
al-qanjatayni 		قَنْجَتَيْ
qanjatay
Genitive قَنْجَتَيْنِ
qanjatayni 		الْقَنْجَتَيْنِ
al-qanjatayni 		قَنْجَتَيْ
qanjatay
Plural sound feminine plural‎; basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قَنْجَات‎; قِنَاج‎; قَنْجِيَّات
qanjāt‎; qināj‎; qanjiyyāt 		الْقَنْجَات‎; الْقِنَاج‎; الْقَنْجِيَّات
al-qanjāt‎; al-qināj‎; al-qanjiyyāt 		قَنْجَات‎; قِنَاج‎; قَنْجِيَّات
qanjāt‎; qināj‎; qanjiyyāt
Nominative قَنْجَاتٌ‎; قِنَاجٌ‎; قَنْجِيَّاتٌ
qanjātun‎; qinājun‎; qanjiyyātun 		الْقَنْجَاتُ‎; الْقِنَاجُ‎; الْقَنْجِيَّاتُ
al-qanjātu‎; al-qināju‎; al-qanjiyyātu 		قَنْجَاتُ‎; قِنَاجُ‎; قَنْجِيَّاتُ
qanjātu‎; qināju‎; qanjiyyātu
Accusative قَنْجَاتٍ‎; قِنَاجًا‎; قَنْجِيَّاتٍ
qanjātin‎; qinājan‎; qanjiyyātin 		الْقَنْجَاتِ‎; الْقِنَاجَ‎; الْقَنْجِيَّاتِ
al-qanjāti‎; al-qināja‎; al-qanjiyyāti 		قَنْجَاتِ‎; قِنَاجَ‎; قَنْجِيَّاتِ
qanjāti‎; qināja‎; qanjiyyāti
Genitive قَنْجَاتٍ‎; قِنَاجٍ‎; قَنْجِيَّاتٍ
qanjātin‎; qinājin‎; qanjiyyātin 		الْقَنْجَاتِ‎; الْقِنَاجِ‎; الْقَنْجِيَّاتِ
al-qanjāti‎; al-qināji‎; al-qanjiyyāti 		قَنْجَاتِ‎; قِنَاجِ‎; قَنْجِيَّاتِ
qanjāti‎; qināji‎; qanjiyyāti

Descendants

  • → English: cangia
  • → French: cange
  • → Italian: cangia

References

  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 244–247
  • Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 309
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قنجة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1059
  • Wolff, Philipp (1867) Arabischer Dragoman: Grammatik, Phrasensammlung und Wörterbuch der neu-arabischen Sprache: ein Vademecum für Reisende in Ägypten, Palästina und Syrien, sowie zum Gebrauch für den Unterricht, 2nd edition, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 198
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