فيج

See also: قبج, قبح, فتح, and ف ت ح

Arabic

Etymology

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Middle Persian pdk'bor.

Arabic فَيْج (fayj)

Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pdk' /⁠payg⁠/, “foot-soldier, foot-walker, courier”) (Classical Persian (payg)). Also found as Classical Syriac ܦܱܝܓܳܐ (paygā, “foot-soldier”) and Old Armenian պայիկ (payik, “foot-soldier”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fajd͡ʒ/

Noun

فَيْج • (fayj) m (plural فُيُوج (fuyūj)) [6^th century]

(obsolete) legman, courier, messenger
Synonyms: فُرَانِق (furāniq), قَيْنَاب (qaynāb), قَانِب (qānib), رَسُول (rasūl)

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obsolete form of فَوْج (fawj, “company, group of people”)

Declension

Declension of noun **فَيْج** (fayj)
singular	basic singular triptote
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فَيْج fayj	الْفَيْج al-fayj	فَيْج fayj
nominative	فَيْجٌ fayjun	الْفَيْجُ al-fayju	فَيْجُ fayju
accusative	فَيْجًا fayjan	الْفَيْجَ al-fayja	فَيْجَ fayja
genitive	فَيْجٍ fayjin	الْفَيْجِ al-fayji	فَيْجِ fayji
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فَيْجَيْن fayjayn	الْفَيْجَيْن al-fayjayn	فَيْجَيْ fayjay
nominative	فَيْجَانِ fayjāni	الْفَيْجَانِ al-fayjāni	فَيْجَا fayjā
accusative	فَيْجَيْنِ fayjayni	الْفَيْجَيْنِ al-fayjayni	فَيْجَيْ fayjay
genitive	فَيْجَيْنِ fayjayni	الْفَيْجَيْنِ al-fayjayni	فَيْجَيْ fayjay
plural	basic broken plural triptote
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	فُيُوج fuyūj	الْفُيُوج al-fuyūj	فُيُوج fuyūj
nominative	فُيُوجٌ fuyūjun	الْفُيُوجُ al-fuyūju	فُيُوجُ fuyūju
accusative	فُيُوجًا fuyūjan	الْفُيُوجَ al-fuyūja	فُيُوجَ fuyūja
genitive	فُيُوجٍ fuyūjin	الْفُيُوجِ al-fuyūji	فُيُوجِ fuyūji

References

“pyg”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
“فيج” in Almaany
Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فيج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 292
Freytag, Georg (1835) “فيج”, 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 385
Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فيج”, 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 C^ie, page 652
Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 74
Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “فيج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2469.
Maggi, Mauro (2003) “New Persian Glosses in East Syriac Texts of the Eighth to Tenth Centuries”, in Paul, Ludwig, editor, Persian Origins. Early Judaeo-Persian and the Emergence of New Persian. Collected Papers of the Symposium, Göttingen 1999, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
Nöldeke, Theodor (1890) Beiträge zur Geschichte des Alexanderromans (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-Historische Classe; XXXVIII) (in German), Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 14
Silverstein, Adam J. (2007) Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 19–20
Yarshater, Ehsan (1998) “The Persian presence in the Islamic world”, in Hovannisian, Richard G., Sabagh, Georges, editors, The Persian presence in the Islamic world, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51