مجن

Tool noun from the root ج ن ن (j n n). Cognate to Classical Syriac ܡܓܶܢܳܐ (məgennā, “shield”), Phoenician 𐤌𐤂𐤍 (mgn, “shield”), and Hebrew מָגֵן (māgén, “shield”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.d͡ʒann/

مِجَنّ • (mijann) m (plural مَجَانّ (majānn))

1. a shield

   Synonyms: تُرْس (turs), دِرْع (dirʕ)

   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 29:7:

     لَمْ تُقْطَعْ يَدُ سَارِقٍ فِي عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّٰهِ —صَلَّى اللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ— فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَمَنِ الْمِجَنِّ حَجَفَةٍ أَوْ تُرْسٍ وَكِلَاهُمَا ذُو ثَمَنٍ.

     lam tuqṭaʕ yadu sāriqin fī ʕahdi rasūli llāhi —ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama— fī ʔaqalla min ṯamani al-mijanni ḥajafatin ʔaw tursin wakilāhumā ḏū ṯamanin.

     During the lifetime of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), the hand of a thief was not cut off for less than the price of a shield, skin-shield or scutum, and both of them are valuable.

• “مجن” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “مجن”, 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 309
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “مجن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 464.