لجين

Arabic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lu.d͡ʒajn/

Noun

لُجَيْن • (lujayn) m

  1. silver

References
  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, 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, pages 859
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