سرجين

Arabic

سرجِين

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (slgyn' /⁠sargēn⁠/, “dung, manure”) whence Modern and Classical Persian سرگین (sargēn, “dung”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćákr̥.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sir.d͡ʒiːn/

Noun

سِرْجِين • (sirjīn) m

  1. manure, dung, fertilizer

Declension

See also

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سرجين”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 306
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سرجين”, 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 (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1078
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سرجين”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1343–1344
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سرجين”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 473
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سرجين”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 564
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