جفن

From the root ج ف ن‎ (j-f-n). Cognate to Hebrew גֶּפֶן‎ (gép̄en, “vine”), Classical Syriac ܓܦܢܬܐ‎ (gəp̄entā, “vine”).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒafn/
  • (Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪfɪn/
  • (Hejazi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒifin/

جَفْن • (jafn) m (plural جُفُون‎ (jufūn) or أَجْفَان‎ (ʔajfān))

1. eyelid
2. (archaic) vat, tub
3. (archaic) vine, grapevine
4. (archaic) enceinte, close, buildings of fortification surrounding an area
   • 1355, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, editor, تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار [tuḥfat an-nuẓẓār fī ḡarāʾib al-ʾamṣār wa ʿajāʾib al-ʾasfār]‎, volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, lines 4–7, page 351:

     ‏وممّا شاع من أفعال مولانا أيده الله في الجهاد إنشاؤه الأجفان بجميع السواحل واستكثاره من عُدَد البحر وهذا في زمان الصلح والمُهادنة إعْدادًا لأيّام القِرة وأخذًا بالحزم في قطع أَطْماع الكفّار.‎‎

     One of the most notable deeds of our master (God assist him!) of struggle is his engineering of enceintes on all shores, and his manifold provisions in naval matters, in time of peace and armistice to prepare for days of war, to shortcircuit the cravings of the infidels resolutely.

5. (archaic) a kind of round ship
   • 1355, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, editor, تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار [tuḥfat an-nuẓẓār fī ḡarāʾib al-ʾamṣār wa ʿajāʾib al-ʾasfār]‎, volume II, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1854, line 1 a fine, page 234:

   • 1355, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, editor, تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار [tuḥfat an-nuẓẓār fī ḡarāʾib al-ʾamṣār wa ʿajāʾib al-ʾasfār]‎, volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, line 2, page 105:

   • 1355, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, editor, تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار [tuḥfat an-nuẓẓār fī ḡarāʾib al-ʾamṣār wa ʿajāʾib al-ʾasfār]‎, volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, line 3 a fine, page 271:

• جَفْنَة‎ (jafna)

• Maltese: ġifen
• → Azerbaijani: cəfn
• → Persian: جفن‎ (jafn)
• → Ottoman Turkish: جفن‎ (cefn)
  • Turkish: cefn
• →⇒? Middle Armenian: ճփնի (čpʿni)

• Agius, Dionisius A. (2008) Classic Ships of Islam. From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 92), Leiden: Brill, pages 338–340
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “جفن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 201

From Arabic جَفْن‎ (jafn).

جفن • (gifn) m (plural جفون‎ (gufū́n))

1. eyelid

Borrowed from Arabic جَفْن‎ (jafn, “eyelid”).

جفن • (cefn) (plural اجفان‎ (ecfan))

1. eyelid, a thin skin membrane that covers the eye

   Synonym: گوز قپاغی‎ (göz kapağı)

2. scabbard, the sheath of a sword or knife

   Synonyms: غلف‎ (gılıf), قین‎ (kın)

• Turkish: cefn

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cefn”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 768
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جفن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 442
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “جفن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1626
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جفن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 666

From Arabic جَفْن‎ (jafn).

• IPA^(key): /ʒifn/, [ˈʒɪ.f(ɪ)n]

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جفن • (jifn) m (plural جفون‎ (jfūn) or جفونة‎ (jfūne))

1. eyelid