فلسقية

Arabic

Etymology

From the plural of Byzantine Greek φλασκίον (phlaskíon), from Latin flascō, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ. Later perhaps reborrowed in the Alexandrine port from Italian fiasca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fi.las.qij.ja/
  • (Alexandria, till 20th century) IPA(key): /fi.jas.kit/

Noun

فِلَسْقِيَّة (filasqiyya) f (plural فِلَسْقِيَّات (filasqiyyāt))

  1. (obsolete, Egypt) flask, flagon, bottle
    • a. 1100, الرشيد بن الزبير [ar-rašīd ibn az-zubayr], محمد حمید الله [muḥammad ḥamīdullāḥ], صلاح الدين المنجد [ṣalāḥ ad-dīn al-munajjid], editors, كتاب الذخائر والتحف [kitāb aḏ-ḏaḵāʾir wa-t-tuḥaf], al-Kuwayt: دائرة المطبوعات والنشر, published 1959, page 61 line 3 a fine–62 line 2:
      وفلسقيتان أُخريان من بِلّوْر مربّط ففضة، مذهّبة الناحية الواحدة، مشبكة بجواهر، وفي وسطها درات، وفي الناحية الأخُرَى أَربع قصبات فضة مطلية بذهب، وكرنيب وكوز فضة مطليّان بذهب مجرى فيهما الجوهر.
      And two other flasks are of crystals twined with silver, gildened in one corner, netted with jewels, and in their mids pearls, and in the other corner four threads of silver thatched with gold, and a bowl and a mug of silver layered both with gold and woven with gemstones.
    Synonyms: قِنِّينَة (qinnīna), زُجَاجَة (zujāja), قَارُورَة (qārūra)

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