دنجل

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology 1

    From Ottoman Turkish دنگل (dingil).

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    دنجل • (dingil, dungul) m (plural دناجل (danāgil))

    1. axle
    2. sharper, swindler

    Verb

    دنجل • (dangil) Iq

    1. to go on the hog train by attachment near the axletree
    2. to finesse, to trick

    Etymology 2

      From English dongle.

      Alternative forms

      • دونجل (dongol)

      Noun

      دنجل • (dongol) m

      1. dongle, a device faciliting transmission of information to another computer in spite of incompatible interfaces

      References

      • Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986), A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎[1], Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 304b
      • Littmann, Enno (1954), “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern‎[2], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →DOI, page 117
      • Spiro, Socrates (1895), “دنجل”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 206a
      • Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎[3] (in German), volume 51, page 307 Nr. 45
      • Wehr, Hans (1979), “دنجل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 339b
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