فلسقية

Arabic

Etymology

From the plural of Byzantine Greek φλασκίον (phlaskíon), from Latin flascō, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ. Later perhaps reborrowed in the Alexandrine port from Italian fiaschetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.las.qij.ja/
• (Alexandria, till 20^th century) IPA^(key): /fi.jas.kitt/

Noun

فِلَسْقِيَّة • (filasqiyya) f (plural فِلَسْقِيَّات (filasqiyyāt))

1. (obsolete, Egypt) flask, flagon, bottle

   Synonyms: قِنِّينَة (qinnīna), زُجَاجَة (zujāja), قَارُورَة (qārūra)

   • a. 1100, الرشيد بن الزبير [ar-rašīd ibn az-zubayr], edited by محمد حمید الله [muḥammad ḥamīdullāḥ] and صلاح الدين المنجد [ṣalāḥ ad-dīn al-munajjid], كتاب الذخائر والتحف [kitāb aḏ-ḏaḵāʔir wa-t-tuḥaf]‎^[1], al-Kuwayt: دائرة المطبوعات والنشر, published 1959, pages 61 line 3 a fine–62 line 2:

     وفلسقيتان أُخريان من بِلّوْر مربّط ففضة، مذهّبة الناحية الواحدة، مشبكة بجواهر، وفي وسطها درات، وفي الناحية الأخُرَى أَربع قصبات فضة مطلية بذهب، وكرنيب وكوز فضة مطليّان بذهب مجرى فيهما الجوهر.

     And two other flasks are of crystals twined with silver, gildened in one corner, netted with jewels, and in their mids pearls, and in the other corner four threads of silver thatched with gold, and a bowl and a mug of silver layered both with gold and woven with gemstones.

Declension

Declension of noun فِلَسْقِيَّة (filasqiyya)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فِلَسْقِيَّة filasqiyya	الْفِلَسْقِيَّة al-filasqiyya	فِلَسْقِيَّة filasqiyyat
Nominative	فِلَسْقِيَّةٌ filasqiyyatun	الْفِلَسْقِيَّةُ al-filasqiyyatu	فِلَسْقِيَّةُ filasqiyyatu
Accusative	فِلَسْقِيَّةً filasqiyyatan	الْفِلَسْقِيَّةَ al-filasqiyyata	فِلَسْقِيَّةَ filasqiyyata
Genitive	فِلَسْقِيَّةٍ filasqiyyatin	الْفِلَسْقِيَّةِ al-filasqiyyati	فِلَسْقِيَّةِ filasqiyyati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فِلَسْقِيَّتَيْن filasqiyyatayn	الْفِلَسْقِيَّتَيْن al-filasqiyyatayn	فِلَسْقِيَّتَيْ filasqiyyatay
Nominative	فِلَسْقِيَّتَانِ filasqiyyatāni	الْفِلَسْقِيَّتَانِ al-filasqiyyatāni	فِلَسْقِيَّتَا filasqiyyatā
Accusative	فِلَسْقِيَّتَيْنِ filasqiyyatayni	الْفِلَسْقِيَّتَيْنِ al-filasqiyyatayni	فِلَسْقِيَّتَيْ filasqiyyatay
Genitive	فِلَسْقِيَّتَيْنِ filasqiyyatayni	الْفِلَسْقِيَّتَيْنِ al-filasqiyyatayni	فِلَسْقِيَّتَيْ filasqiyyatay
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فِلَسْقِيَّات filasqiyyāt	الْفِلَسْقِيَّات al-filasqiyyāt	فِلَسْقِيَّات filasqiyyāt
Nominative	فِلَسْقِيَّاتٌ filasqiyyātun	الْفِلَسْقِيَّاتُ al-filasqiyyātu	فِلَسْقِيَّاتُ filasqiyyātu
Accusative	فِلَسْقِيَّاتٍ filasqiyyātin	الْفِلَسْقِيَّاتِ al-filasqiyyāti	فِلَسْقِيَّاتِ filasqiyyāti
Genitive	فِلَسْقِيَّاتٍ filasqiyyātin	الْفِلَسْقِيَّاتِ al-filasqiyyāti	فِلَسْقِيَّاتِ filasqiyyāti

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فلسقية”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 279a
• Behnstedt, Peter (1980) “Zum ursprünglichen Dialekt von Alexandria”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 130, page 43, Text II Nr. 45