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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