finjan

English

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.
    • 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.
    • 2015, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain:
      The coffee-shops were already crowded with lean and hungry customers, the pipes were filled and lighted, and the coffee smoked in the finjans.

Spanish

Verb

finjan

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of fingir.
  2. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of fingir.
  3. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of fingir.
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