صهريج

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • صُهَارِج (ṣuhārij)

Etymology

From Middle Persian *čāhrēg, from [script needed] (cʾh /čāh/, pit, well) + [script needed] (lyk' /rēg/, sand), or more likely from *čahrīg, from cʾhr (/čahr/, wheel)

Noun

صِهْرِيج or صَهْرِيج (ṣihrīj or ṣahrīj) m (plural صَهَارِيج (ṣahārīj))

  1. tank; cistern

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), صهريج”, 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 529
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), صهريج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1738
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), صهريج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 731
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