إقنيز

Arabic

Alternative forms

• قِنْز (qinz)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κνίδιον (knídion), from Κνίδος (Knídos). First attested in the Ptolemaic period and the most widely attested amphora name in Late Antiquity in Greek and also popular in Coptic (ⲕⲛⲓⲕⲓϫⲓ (knikiči), ⲕⲛⲓⲕⲓⲇⲓ (knikidi), ⲕⲟⲩⲛⲇⲟⲩ (koundou), as an equivalent of ⲗⲁⲕⲟⲟⲧⲉ (lakoote)), but uncommon in Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔiq.niːz/

Noun

إِقْنِيز • (ʔiqnīz) m (obsolete)

1. scyphus, jar

Declension

Declension of noun إِقْنِيز (ʔiqnīz)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِقْنِيز ʔiqnīz	الْإِقْنِيز al-ʔiqnīz	إِقْنِيز ʔiqnīz
Nominative	إِقْنِيزٌ ʔiqnīzun	الْإِقْنِيزُ al-ʔiqnīzu	إِقْنِيزُ ʔiqnīzu
Accusative	إِقْنِيزًا ʔiqnīzan	الْإِقْنِيزَ al-ʔiqnīza	إِقْنِيزَ ʔiqnīza
Genitive	إِقْنِيزٍ ʔiqnīzin	الْإِقْنِيزِ al-ʔiqnīzi	إِقْنِيزِ ʔiqnīzi

Derived terms

• أَقْنَزَ (ʔaqnaza, “to drink from a إِقْنِيز (ʔiqnīz)”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “إقنيز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 504
• Vorderstrasse, Tasha (2014) “Terms for Vessels in Arabic and Coptic Documentary Texts and Their Archaeological and Ethnographic Correlates”, in Alexander T. Schubert, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, editors, Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World (Islamic History and Civilization; 111)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 213–214