لجين

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Arabic

FWOTD – 8 September 2024

Etymology

Uncertain, it may be Aramaic לְגִינָא (ləgīnā, “flask, jug”) applied to a piece of silverware.

Pronunciation

Noun

لُجَيْن • (lujayn) m

  1. refined silver
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب معرفة الذهب والفضة وامتحانهما [About the knowledge of gold and silver and their assessment]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]‎:
      وزعموا أن خير الذهب العقيان وخير الفضة اللُّجَين، ومذاق الفضة الصافية عذبٌ، ومذاق الزيوف مرٌّ صَدِئٌ، والنبهرج من الدراهم مالحٌ جَرَسيُّ الطنين، والفضة صافية الطنين لا يشوبها صَممٌ، وهي تقطع العطش إذا مُسكت في الفم.
      It is claimed that the best gold is the native one, and the best silver the refined one. Refined silver tastes sweet, fake silver bitter and disagreeable. The phoney dirhams are salty in taste and bell-sounding, whereas pure silver has a thudless sound. It tranquilizes thirst if held in the mouth.

Declension

Declension of noun لُجَيْن (lujayn)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal لُجَيْن
lujayn 		اللُّجَيْن
al-lujayn 		لُجَيْن
lujayn
Nominative لُجَيْنٌ
lujaynun 		اللُّجَيْنُ
al-lujaynu 		لُجَيْنُ
lujaynu
Accusative لُجَيْنًا
lujaynan 		اللُّجَيْنَ
al-lujayna 		لُجَيْنَ
lujayna
Genitive لُجَيْنٍ
lujaynin 		اللُّجَيْنِ
al-lujayni 		لُجَيْنِ
lujayni

Proper noun

لُجَيْن • (lujayn) f

  1. a female given name, Lujayn, Lojayn, or Lojain

Declension

Declension of noun لُجَيْن (lujayn)
Singular basic singular diptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal — لُجَيْن
lujayn 		—
Nominative — لُجَيْنُ
lujaynu 		—
Accusative — لُجَيْنَ
lujayna 		—
Genitive — لُجَيْنَ
lujayna 		—

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1142, formally unbearable connection to Aramaic descendants of Ancient Greek ἄργυρος (árguros)
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 152
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “لجين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 859
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