آبگینه

Persian

Alternative forms

• آبگین (âbgin)

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾp̄ḵynk' (ābgēnag, “crystal, glass”), compound of ʾp̄ (āb, “water”) + -kyn' (-gēn) + -k' (-ag). Akin to Sogdian [script needed] (ʾʾpkyn-), [script needed] (ʾʾpkynʾk, “crystal”), Ossetian авг (avg) (Iron) / авгӕ (avgæ, “glass; bottle”) (Digor), and also Old Armenian ապակի (apaki), Coptic ⲁⲃⲁϫⲏⲓⲛⲓ (abačēini), and Hungarian üveg (“glass; bottle”); Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːβ.ɡiː.ˈna]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.ɡiː.nǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.ɡiː.nǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.ɡiː.nǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːb.ɡi.nǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːb.ɡʲiː.né]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔb.ɡi.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	āḇgīna
Dari reading?	ābgīna
Iranian reading?	âbgine
Tajik reading?	obgina

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Noun

Dari	آبگینه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	обгина

آبگینه • (âbgine) (plural آبگینه‌ها (âbgine-hâ))

1. glass (substance)

   Synonym: شیشه (šiše)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3958:

     آبگینه‌‌ی زرد چون سازی نقاب
     زرد بینی جمله نور آفتاب

     ābgina-i zard čōn sāzī niqāb
     zard bīnī jumla nūr-i āftāb

     When you make yellow glass a veil,
     you see all the sunlight yellow.

2. glass (drinking vessel)

   Synonyms: لیوان (livân) (Iran), گیلاس (gêlâs) (Dari)

3. mirror

   Synonym: آیینه (âyine)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “آبگینه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آبگینه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Lambton, Ann K.S. (1954) Persian Vocabulary, London: Cambridge University Press, page 3
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “آبگینه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ābgēnag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press