Arabic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian corresponding to Classical Persian سکرچه (sukarrača). سکرجه (sokarraja), see Persian سکوره (sokure).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /su.kur.ra.d͡ʒa/, /su.kur.ru.d͡ʒa/, /suk.ru.d͡ʒa/

Noun edit

سُكْرُجَة or سُكُرُّجَة or سُكُرَّجَة (sukruja or sukurruja or sukurrajaf (plural سَكَارِيج (sakārīj)) (archaic)

  1. a kind of small bowl-shaped plate for side dishes, like for sauces for meat, as well as chemistry applications
  2. a weight measure used as well in cookery as in pharmacy of a bowl containing 125 grams
    • a. 1165, ابن التلميذ [Ibn al-Tilmīḏ], edited by Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn At-Tilmīḏ الأقراباذين الكبير (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 70), Leiden: Brill, published 2007, →ISBN, page 135 Nr. 288:
      دهن الحسك
      حسك مرضوض عشرة دراهم زنجبيل أربعة دراهم دهن حل أسكرجة ماء عذب خمس عشرة أسكرجة
      Caltrop oil
      Crushed caltrop ten dirham; ginger four dirham; sesame oil one cupful; fresh water fiteen cupfuls.
  3. cutting-disk of a threshing-sledge Schneidscheibe des Dreschschlittens
  4. socket of a door hinge Angelpfanne einer Tür
    • 1890, Muḥammad Bey ʕuṯmān Galāl, edited by Friedrich Kern, النساء العالمات [The Learned Ladies], Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, published 1898, page 112:
      طيب، وقصيد الشيخ مليجي وإبرهيم،
      وخطبة الشيخ سكرجة والشيخ كليم،
      ليه ما طبعتوهم، ولا أخذوا فلوس،
      في أجرة الشمعة، وتصليح الفَنوس؟
      Well, and the qasida of Sheykh Malīgī and ʔIbrahīm,
      and the speech of Sheykh Hinge-Socket and the speech of Sheykh Carpet,
      why have you not printed them, and they received naught to redeem
      dedicated brooding by the candle, screwing the lamplet?

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Sicilian: scurruggia

References edit

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سكرجة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 668b
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “سكرجة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 334a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سكرجة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[4] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1114a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سكرجة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[5], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1392a
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سكرجة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 581b