finjan

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Alternative forms

Noun

finjan (plural finjans)

  1. In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.
    • 1853, Habeeb Risk Allah Effendi, The thistle and the cedar of Lebanon, page 21:
      On each side is a tray, covered with a snoy napkin, the edges worked with gold and silver flowers, upon one are handsome finjans in filigree, silver coffee-cups, and sugar-basins; on the other, cut-glass saucers full of delicious candied sweetmeats, of which the orange- flower, violet and rose are the most fragrant.
    • 1854, Bayard Taylor, “Kiutahya, and the Ruins of Œzani”, in The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], published 1855, →OCLC, page 290:
      The coffee-shops were already crowded with lean and hungry customers, the pipes were filled and lighted, and the coffee smoked in the finjans.
    • 1961, R. Leslie Gourse, With gall and honey, page 76:
      Luis spooned Turkish coffee and sugar into a finjan and, after lighting the stoves in an accomplished manner, he cooked the eggs and boiled the coffee three times.

Spanish

Verb

finjan

  1. inflection of fingir:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
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