جوانتي

Egyptian Arabic

Alternative forms

• جونتي (guwanti), جاونتي (gawanti)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wondʰnú-der.

Proto-Germanic *wantuz

Frankish *wantubor.

Old French guantder.

Italian guanto

Italian guantibor.

Egyptian Arabic جوانتي

Borrowed from Italian guanti, plural of guanto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuwanti/, /ɡawanti/

Noun

جُوانتي or جَوانتي • (guwanti or gawanti) m (plural جُوانتيات (guwantiyyāt) or جَوانتيات (gawantiyyāt))

1. gloves

   Synonyms: (obsolete) الدوان (ʔildiwān), كف (kaff)

   عم أشرف صاحب الورشة اللي تحتينا بيلبس نضارة واقية وساعات جوانتي وهو شغال

   ʕamm ʔašraf ṣāḥib il-warša ʔilli taḥtīna byilbis naḍḍāra waʔiyya w-saʕāt guwanti w-huwwa šaḡḡāl.

   Ashraf the owner of the workshop that's under us wears protective glasses and sometimes gloves when he works.

Derived terms

• فردة جوانتي (fardit guwanti)

Descendants

• → Hijazi Arabic: جونتي (juwinti, juwanti)

References

• Almkvist, Herman (1891) Kleine Beiträge zur Lexikographie des Vulgärarabischen‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Leide: E.J. Brill, page 72
• Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎^[2], Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 183b
• Spiro, Socrates (1895) “جوانتي”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 114b