برزين

Arabic

Alternative forms

• بِرْزَن (birzan)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic בַּרְזִינָא (barzīnā), related to the fabric بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “saddle-pad”), بُرْزُغ (burzuḡ), بُرْزُوغ (burzūḡ), بِرْزَاغ (birzāḡ, “activity, vivacity, alacrity, vivid habit”), بِرْزِيق (birzīq, “a procession of horsemen”), بُرْجُد (burjud, “an elegant vestment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bir.ziːn/

Noun

بِرْزِين • (birzīn) m (obsolete)

1. a drinking-cup made out of a branch of the palm-tree to take wine from the amphora (خابِية (ḵābiya))
   • a. 600, various poets, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     إنَّما لِقْحَتُنا باطيةٌ … جَوْنةٌ يَتْبَعُها بِرْزِينُها
     var.
     وَلنَا باطِيةٌ مملوءَةٌ ... جَوْنَةٌ يَتْبَعُها بِرْزِينُها
     var.
     وَلنَا باطِيةٌ مُخْتُومةٌ ... جَوْنَةٌ يَتْبَعُها بِرْزِينُها

     We have a sealed winejug, a winecask followed by a winecup

Declension

Declension of noun بِرْزِين (birzīn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بِرْزِين birzīn	الْبِرْزِين al-birzīn	بِرْزِين birzīn
Nominative	بِرْزِينٌ birzīnun	الْبِرْزِينُ al-birzīnu	بِرْزِينُ birzīnu
Accusative	بِرْزِينًا birzīnan	الْبِرْزِينَ al-birzīna	بِرْزِينَ birzīna
Genitive	بِرْزِينٍ birzīnin	الْبِرْزِينِ al-birzīni	بِرْزِينِ birzīni

References

• “brzyn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 208–209
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “برزين”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 107b
• أبو الخير الإشبيلي [Abū al-Ḵayr al-ʾIšbīliyy] (1179) Joaquín Bustamante, Federico Corriente y Mohand Tilmatine, editor, كتاب عمدة الطبيب في معرفة النبات لكل لبيب [Libro base del médico para el conocimiento de la botánica por todo experto] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas), volume I, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 2004, page 102 Nr. 1045
• Pezzi Martínez, Elena (1979) “Origen oriental del vocablo borceguí”, in Miscelánea de estudios árabes y hebraicos‎^[2] (in Spanish), volumes 27–28, page 96
• Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 243a