فرجون
Arabic
FWOTD – 12 January 2019
Alternative forms
- فِرْجَوْل (firjawl) — less often
Etymology
Borrowed from Aramaic פְּרַגְלָא (fragəlā) / ܦܪܳܓܶܠܳܐ (frāgĕlā), from Byzantine Greek φραγέλλιον (phragéllion), from Latin flagellum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fir.d͡ʒawn/
Noun
فِرْجَوْن • (firjawn) m (plural فَرَاجِين (farājīn))
- currycomb, strigil, brush
- 2014 March 19, “ar: بحث حول النظافة”, in Bayt Al-Maʿrafa[1], archived from the original on 16 October 2017:
- تجنبي قرض أظافرك بأسنانك واهتمي بدعكها بالفرجون والماء والصابون ثم اشطفيها وجففيها جيداً.
- Avoid gnawing your nails with your teeth and take care to scrub them with the brush and the water and the soap and then rinse and dry them well.
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | فِرْجَوْن firjawn |
الْفِرْجَوْن al-firjawn |
فِرْجَوْن firjawn |
| nominative | فِرْجَوْنٌ firjawnun |
الْفِرْجَوْنُ al-firjawnu |
فِرْجَوْنُ firjawnu |
| accusative | فِرْجَوْنًا firjawnan |
الْفِرْجَوْنَ al-firjawna |
فِرْجَوْنَ firjawna |
| genitive | فِرْجَوْنٍ firjawnin |
الْفِرْجَوْنِ al-firjawni |
فِرْجَوْنِ firjawni |
| dual | indefinite | definite | construct |
| informal | فِرْجَوْنَيْن firjawnayn |
الْفِرْجَوْنَيْن al-firjawnayn |
فِرْجَوْنَيْ firjawnay |
| nominative | فِرْجَوْنَانِ firjawnāni |
الْفِرْجَوْنَانِ al-firjawnāni |
فِرْجَوْنَا firjawnā |
| accusative | فِرْجَوْنَيْنِ firjawnayni |
الْفِرْجَوْنَيْنِ al-firjawnayni |
فِرْجَوْنَيْ firjawnay |
| genitive | فِرْجَوْنَيْنِ firjawnayni |
الْفِرْجَوْنَيْنِ al-firjawnayni |
فِرْجَوْنَيْ firjawnay |
| plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | فَرَاجِين farājīn |
الْفَرَاجِين al-farājīn |
فَرَاجِين farājīn |
| nominative | فَرَاجِينُ farājīnu |
الْفَرَاجِينُ al-farājīnu |
فَرَاجِينُ farājīnu |
| accusative | فَرَاجِينَ farājīna |
الْفَرَاجِينَ al-farājīna |
فَرَاجِينَ farājīna |
| genitive | فَرَاجِينَ farājīna |
الْفَرَاجِينِ al-farājīni |
فَرَاجِينِ farājīni |
Derived terms
- فَرْجَنَ (farjana, “to curry, to scrub”)
Descendants
- → Classical Syriac: ܦܪܓܘܢܐ
- → Ottoman Turkish: فرجول (fircevl)
References
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 113
- Freytag, Georg (1835) “فرجون”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 328
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فرجون”, 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[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 563
- Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “فرجون”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2361.
- Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “فرجون”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache[4] (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 396
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “فرجون”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 822
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فرجون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 950
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فرجون”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[6], London: W.H. Allen, page 782