فرجون

Arabic

FWOTD – 12 January 2019

Alternative forms

• فِرْجَوْل (firjawl) — less often

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic פְּרַגְלָא (fragəlā) / ܦܪܳܓܶܠܳܐ (frāgĕlā), from Byzantine Greek φραγέλλιον (phragéllion), from Latin flagellum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fir.d͡ʒawn/

Noun

فِرْجَوْن • (firjawn) m (plural فَرَاجِين (farājīn))

1. currycomb, strigil, brush

   Synonyms: فُرْشَاة (furšāh), مِحَسَّة (miḥassa)

   • 2014 March 19, “ar: بحث حول النظافة”, in Bayt Al-Maʿrafa‎^[1], archived from the original on 2017-10-16:

     تجنبي قرض أظافرك بأسنانك واهتمي بدعكها بالفرجون والماء والصابون ثم اشطفيها وجففيها جيداً.

     Avoid gnawing your nails with your teeth and take care to scrub them with the brush and the water and the soap and then rinse and dry them well.

Declension

Declension of noun فِرْجَوْن (firjawn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فِرْجَوْن firjawn	الْفِرْجَوْن al-firjawn	فِرْجَوْن firjawn
Nominative	فِرْجَوْنٌ firjawnun	الْفِرْجَوْنُ al-firjawnu	فِرْجَوْنُ firjawnu
Accusative	فِرْجَوْنًا firjawnan	الْفِرْجَوْنَ al-firjawna	فِرْجَوْنَ firjawna
Genitive	فِرْجَوْنٍ firjawnin	الْفِرْجَوْنِ al-firjawni	فِرْجَوْنِ firjawni
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فِرْجَوْنَيْن firjawnayn	الْفِرْجَوْنَيْن al-firjawnayn	فِرْجَوْنَيْ firjawnay
Nominative	فِرْجَوْنَانِ firjawnāni	الْفِرْجَوْنَانِ al-firjawnāni	فِرْجَوْنَا firjawnā
Accusative	فِرْجَوْنَيْنِ firjawnayni	الْفِرْجَوْنَيْنِ al-firjawnayni	فِرْجَوْنَيْ firjawnay
Genitive	فِرْجَوْنَيْنِ firjawnayni	الْفِرْجَوْنَيْنِ al-firjawnayni	فِرْجَوْنَيْ firjawnay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَرَاجِين farājīn	الْفَرَاجِين al-farājīn	فَرَاجِين farājīn
Nominative	فَرَاجِينُ farājīnu	الْفَرَاجِينُ al-farājīnu	فَرَاجِينُ farājīnu
Accusative	فَرَاجِينَ farājīna	الْفَرَاجِينَ al-farājīna	فَرَاجِينَ farājīna
Genitive	فَرَاجِينَ farājīna	الْفَرَاجِينِ al-farājīni	فَرَاجِينِ farājīni

Derived terms

• فَرْجَنَ (farjana, “to curry, to scrub”)

Descendants

• → Classical Syriac: ܦܪܓܘܢܐ
• → Ottoman Turkish: فرجول (fircevl)

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 113
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “فرجون”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 328
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فرجون”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 563
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “فرجون”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2361
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “فرجون”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[5] (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 396
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “فرجون”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 822
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فرجون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 950
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فرجون”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[7], London: W.H. Allen, page 782