فيج
See also: قبج, قبح, فتح, and ف ت ح
Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pdk' /payg/, “foot-soldier, foot-walker, courier”) (Classical Persian پیگ (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)) [6th century]
- (obsolete) legman, courier, messenger
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- Synonyms: فُرَانِق (furāniq), قَيْنَاب (qaynāb), قَانِب (qānib), رَسُول (rasūl)
- obsolete form of فَوْج (fawj, “company, group of people”).
Declension
Declension of noun فَيْج (fayj)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 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 (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 (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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 652
- Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 74
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “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