See also: قبج, قبح, فتح, and ف ت ح

Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pdk' /⁠payg⁠/, foot-soldier, foot-walker, courier) (Classical Persian پیگ (payg)). Also found as Classical Syriac ܦܱܝܓܳܐ (paygā, foot-soldier) and Old Armenian պայիկ (payik, foot-soldier).

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Noun

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فَيْج (fayjm (plural فُيُوج (fuyūj)) [6th century]

  1. (obsolete) legman, courier, messenger
    Synonyms: فُرَانِق (furāniq), قَيْنَاب (qaynāb), قَانِب (qānib), رَسُول (rasūl)
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  2. obsolete form of فَوْج (fawj, company, group of people).

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References

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  • pyg”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • فيج” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فيج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 292
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فيج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 385
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فيج”, 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[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 652
  • Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 74
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فيج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2469
  • Maggi, Mauro (2003) “New Persian Glosses in East Syriac Texts of the Eighth to Tenth Centuries”, in Paul, Ludwig, editor, Persian Origins. Early Judaeo-Persian and the Emergence of New Persian. Collected Papers of the Symposium, Göttingen 1999, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1890) Beiträge zur Geschichte des Alexanderromans (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-Historische Classe; XXXVIII) (in German), Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 14
  • Silverstein, Adam J. (2007) Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 19–20
  • Yarshater, Ehsan (1998) “The Persian presence in the Islamic world”, in Hovannisian, Richard G., Sabagh, Georges, editors, The Persian presence in the Islamic world, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51