τάγηνον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τήγανον (tḗganon)
- ἤγανον (ḗganon)
Etymology
Agglutinated the Greek article, equalling[1] Aramaic אַגָּנָא / אַגָּאנָא / ܐܓܢܐ (ʾaggānā), Hebrew אַגָּן (ʾaggā́n), Ugaritic 𐎀𐎂𐎐 (ảgn), Akkadian 𒌓𒅗𒁇 (UD.KA.BAR /agannum/), from which Semitic generic terms for a “bowl” the Greek is borrowed, if not acquired from a third source in between which may have stood model for them, as also Egyptian
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(jkn, “bowl”), which however is also a candidate for borrowing.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tá.ɡɛː.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈta.ɡe̝.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈta.ʝi.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈta.ʝi.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈta.ʝi.non/
Noun
τάγηνον • (tágēnon) n (genitive τᾰγήνου); second declension
- frying pan, saucepan
Declension
Second declension of τὸ τάγηνον; τοῦ ταγήνου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ τάγηνον tò tágēnon | τὼ ταγήνω tṑ tagḗnō | τᾰ̀ τάγηνᾰ tà tágēna | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ταγήνου toû tagḗnou | τοῖν ταγήνοιν toîn tagḗnoin | τῶν ταγήνων tôn tagḗnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ταγήνῳ tôi tagḗnōi | τοῖν ταγήνοιν toîn tagḗnoin | τοῖς ταγήνοις toîs tagḗnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ τάγηνον tò tágēnon | τὼ ταγήνω tṑ tagḗnō | τᾰ̀ τάγηνᾰ tà tágēna | ||||||||||
Vocative | τάγηνον tágēnon | ταγήνω tagḗnō | τάγηνᾰ tágēna | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ταγηνοστρόφιον (tagēnostróphion)
- ταγηνῑ́της (tagēnī́tēs)
Descendants
- → Aramaic:
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: טיגנה
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: טֵיגְנָא (ṭēḡnā)
- Classical Syriac: ܛܐܓܢܐ, ܛܓܢܐ (ṭēgnā)
- → Arabic: طَاجِن (ṭājin), طِيجَن (ṭījan), طَيْجَن (ṭayjan)
- Andalusian Arabic: طجين (ṭajīn), طاجين (ṭājīn), طاجن (ṭājin, ṭājan)
- Maltese: taġen
- Moroccan Arabic: طجين (ṭajīn), طاجين (ṭājīn)
- → English: tajine
- → French: tagine
- → Portuguese: tagine
- → Spanish: tajín, tayín
- → Sicilian: tiganu (through the variant τήγανον (tḗganon))
Further reading
- “τάγηνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τάγηνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 802