دنجل
Egyptian Arabic
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish دنگل (dingil).
Alternative forms
- دنكل (dingil, dungul)
Noun
دنجل • (dingil, dungul) m (plural دناجل (danāgil))
- axle
- sharper, swindler
Verb
دنجل • (dangil) (perfect, Verb form Iq)
- to go on the hog train by attachment near the axletree
- to finesse, to trick
Etymology 2
From English dongle.
Alternative forms
- دونجل (dongol)
Noun
دنجل • (dongol) m
- dongle, a device faciliting transmission of information to another computer in spite of incompatible interfaces
References
- Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 304b
- Littmann, Enno (1954), “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 117 of 107–127
- Spiro, Socrates (1895), “دنجل”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, First edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 206a
- Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 307 Nr. 45
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “دنجل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 339b