سجين

Arabic

سُجَناء

Etymology 1

From the root س ج ن‎ (s-j-n).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.d͡ʒiːn/

Noun

سَجِين • (sajīn) m, plural سُجَناء‎ (sujanāʔ) or سَجْنَى‎ (sajnā) or سَجِينُونَ‎ (sajīnūna), feminine سَجِينَة‎ (sajīna)

  1. prisoner, inmate
Declension

Adjective

سَجِين • (sajīn), feminine سَجِينَة‎ (sajīna), masculine plural سُجَناء‎ (sujanāʔ) or سَجْنَى‎ (sajnā) or سَجِينُونَ‎ (sajīnūna), feminine plural سَجِينَات‎ (sajīnāt) or سَجْنَى‎ (sajnā) or سَجَائِن‎ (sajāʔin)

  1. imprisoned
Declension

Etymology 2

Unknown, possible an invented word on the basis of سِجْن‎ (sijn) and analogical to عِلِّيِّين‎ (ʕilliyyīn), compare also سَجَنْجَل‎ (sajanjal); the definition given by the Qurʔān itself as كِتَابٌ مَرْقُومٌ (kitābun marqūmun) may even be due to glossema.

Noun

سِجِّين • (sijjīn) m

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: Antonym: عِلِّيُون‎ (ʕilliyūn)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 83:7-9:
      ‏كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ / وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ / كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ‎
      kallā ʔinna kitāba l-fujjāri lafī sijjīnin / wamā ʔadrāka mā sijjīnun / kitābun mmarqūmun
      No! Indeed, the record of the wicked is in sijjeen. And what can make you know what is sijjeen? It is [their destination recorded in] a register inscribed.
    1. the Underworld, a bottomless pit, an infernal prison, Hades, Sheol, the Abyss, often decipted under the seven Earths.
      Synonyms: هَاوِيَة‎ (hāwiya), شَاؤُول‎ (šāʔūl), هَادِيس‎ (hādīs), الْعَالَمُ السُّفْلِيِ‎ (al-ʕālamu s-sufliyi)
    2. the hell, Hell, the Fire
      Synonyms: سَعِير‎ (saʕīr), لَظَىٰ‎ (laẓā), النَّار‎ (an-nār), جَهَنَّم‎ (jahannam), جَحِيم‎ (jaḥīm), حُطَمَة‎ (ḥuṭama), سَقَر‎ (saqar)
      1. The lowest hellhole in the Hell
        Synonym: دَرْك‎ (dark)
    3. the seventh Earth
    4. the record of the wicked
    5. an intensive/diminutive form of سِجْن‎ (sijn, “prison”)

References

  • Grimme, Hubert (1912), “Über einige Klassen südarabischer Lehnwörter im Koran”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete‎ (in German), volume 26, page 163
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 165
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