فرانق
Arabic
Etymology
From Middle Persian plwʾnk' (parwānag).
Noun
فُرَانِق • (furāniq) m (plural فُرَانِقُون (furāniqūn)) (obsolete)
- courier, messenger
- p. 700, a forger of Imruʾ al-Qays, سما لكَ شوقٌ بعدما كان أقصر [1] [2]:
- وَإِنِّي زَعِيمٌ (var. أَذِينٌ) إِنْ رَجِعْتُ مُمَلَّكٌ / بِسَيْرٍ تَرَى مِنْهُ الفُرَانِقَ أَزْوَرَا
عَلَى لَاحِبٍ لَا يَهْتَدِي بِمَنَارِهِ / إِذَا سَافَهُ الْعَوْدُ النُّبَاطِيُّ (var. دِيَافِيُّ) جَرْجَرَا
عَلَى كُلِّ مَقْصُوصِ الذُنَابَى مُعَاوِدٍ / بَرِيدَ السَرَى بِاللَيْلِ مِن خَيْلِ بَرْبَرَا- wa-ʔinnī zaʕīmun (var. ʔaḏīnun) ʔin rajiʕtu mumallakun / bi-sayrin tarā minhu l-furāniqa ʔazwarā
ʕalā lāḥibin lā yahtadī bi-manāri-hī / ʔiḏā sāfa-hū l-ʕawdu n-nubāṭiyyu (var. diyāfiyyu) jarjarā
ʕalā kulli maqṣūṣi ḏ-ḏunābā muʕāwidin / barīda s-sarā bi-l-layli min ḵayli barbarā - And when I am the leader, back in the kingly rights, I trip so fast that you but see asquint the courier
on an open road guided by no waymark, when it is smelled by the Nabataean camel dragging forward
on every clipped bird-tail returning nocturnal journey’s mail by night from a horse that whinnied.
- wa-ʔinnī zaʕīmun (var. ʔaḏīnun) ʔin rajiʕtu mumallakun / bi-sayrin tarā minhu l-furāniqa ʔazwarā
- army leader
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | فُرَانِق furāniq |
الْفُرَانِق al-furāniq |
فُرَانِق furāniq |
| nominative | فُرَانِقٌ furāniqun |
الْفُرَانِقُ al-furāniqu |
فُرَانِقُ furāniqu |
| accusative | فُرَانِقًا furāniqan |
الْفُرَانِقَ al-furāniqa |
فُرَانِقَ furāniqa |
| genitive | فُرَانِقٍ furāniqin |
الْفُرَانِقِ al-furāniqi |
فُرَانِقِ furāniqi |
| dual | indefinite | definite | construct |
| informal | فُرَانِقَيْن furāniqayn |
الْفُرَانِقَيْن al-furāniqayn |
فُرَانِقَيْ furāniqay |
| nominative | فُرَانِقَانِ furāniqāni |
الْفُرَانِقَانِ al-furāniqāni |
فُرَانِقَا furāniqā |
| accusative | فُرَانِقَيْنِ furāniqayni |
الْفُرَانِقَيْنِ al-furāniqayni |
فُرَانِقَيْ furāniqay |
| genitive | فُرَانِقَيْنِ furāniqayni |
الْفُرَانِقَيْنِ al-furāniqayni |
فُرَانِقَيْ furāniqay |
| plural | sound masculine plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | فُرَانِقِين furāniqīn |
الْفُرَانِقِين al-furāniqīn |
فُرَانِقِي furāniqī |
| nominative | فُرَانِقُونَ furāniqūna |
الْفُرَانِقُونَ al-furāniqūna |
فُرَانِقُو furāniqū |
| accusative | فُرَانِقِينَ furāniqīna |
الْفُرَانِقِينَ al-furāniqīna |
فُرَانِقِي furāniqī |
| genitive | فُرَانِقِينَ furāniqīna |
الْفُرَانِقِينَ al-furāniqīna |
فُرَانِقِي furāniqī |
References
- Garosi, Eugenio (1 December 2022) “Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey”, in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World. From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, , →ISBN, page 412
- Ullmann, Manfred (1997) Zur Geschichte des Wortes barīd „Post“ [About the history of the word barīd ‘post’] (Beiträge zur Lexikographie des Klassischen Arabisch; 13)[3] (in German), München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei der C.H.Beck’schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, →ISBN, pages 54–59