سرجين
Arabic
Alternative forms
- سِرْقِين (sirqīn)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (slgyn' /sargēn/, “dung, manure”) whence Modern and Classical Persian سرگین (sargēn, “dung”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćákr̥.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sir.d͡ʒiːn/
Noun
سِرْجِين • (sirjīn) m
- manure, dung, fertilizer
- c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 7, Art. 35, page 405:
- […] وجميع أجناس السرجين لا توافقعا […]
- […] No sort of manure agrees with it [the azarole].
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | سِرْجِين sirjīn |
السِّرْجِين as-sirjīn |
سِرْجِين sirjīn |
| nominative | سِرْجِينٌ sirjīnun |
السِّرْجِينُ as-sirjīnu |
سِرْجِينُ sirjīnu |
| accusative | سِرْجِينًا sirjīnan |
السِّرْجِينَ as-sirjīna |
سِرْجِينَ sirjīna |
| genitive | سِرْجِينٍ sirjīnin |
السِّرْجِينِ as-sirjīni |
سِرْجِينِ sirjīni |
See also
References
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “سرجين”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 306
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سرجين”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1078
- Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سرجين”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1343–1344.
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “سرجين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 473
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سرجين”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 564