لجين
Arabic
Etymology
Uncertain, it may be Aramaic לְגִינָא (ləgīnā, “flask, jug”) applied to a piece of silverware.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu.d͡ʒajn/
Noun
لُجَيْن • (lujayn) m
- silver
References
- Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1142, formally unbearable connection to Aramaic descendants of Ancient Greek ἄργυρος (árguros)
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 152
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “لجين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 859