برجد
Arabic
Etymology
Probably metathetical to original *بُرْدُج (*burduj) and related to the fabric بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “saddle-pad”), بُرْزُغ (burzuḡ), بُرْزُوغ (burzūḡ), بِرْزَاغ (birzāḡ, “activity, vivacity, alacrity, vivid habit”), بِرْزِيق (birzīq, “a procession of horsemen”), بِرْزِين (birzīn, “drinking-cup made out of a palm-tree branch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bur.d͡ʒud/
Noun
بُرْجُد • (burjud) m (obsolete)
- a kind of elegant vestment
- a. 750, Aṭ-Ṭarimmāḥ, is cited by Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānīy after Al-ʔAṣmaʿīy:
- مُجتاب حُلّسة بُرْجدٍ لسَرَاته … قِدَدًا وأخلَفَ ما سراه البُرجدُ
يبدو وتُضمره البلاد كَأنه … سَيفٌ على شَرَفٍ يُسَلُّ ويُغمَد- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | بُرْجُد burjud |
الْبُرْجُد al-burjud |
بُرْجُد burjud |
| nominative | بُرْجُدٌ burjudun |
الْبُرْجُدُ al-burjudu |
بُرْجُدُ burjudu |
| accusative | بُرْجُدًا burjudan |
الْبُرْجُدَ al-burjuda |
بُرْجُدَ burjuda |
| genitive | بُرْجُدٍ burjudin |
الْبُرْجُدِ al-burjudi |
بُرْجُدِ burjudi |
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “برجد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 103b
- Pezzi Martínez, Elena (1979) “Origen oriental del vocablo borceguí”, in Miscelánea de estudios árabes y hebraicos[2] (in Spanish), volumes 27–28, page 100