قنقل

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κάγκελλον (kánkellon), itself from Old Persian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qan.qal/

Noun

قَنْقَل • (qanqal) m (plural قَنَاقِل (qanāqil)) (obsolete)

1. a unit of capacity unclear in extent

Declension

Declension of noun قَنْقَل (qanqal)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَنْقَل qanqal	الْقَنْقَل al-qanqal	قَنْقَل qanqal
Nominative	قَنْقَلٌ qanqalun	الْقَنْقَلُ al-qanqalu	قَنْقَلُ qanqalu
Accusative	قَنْقَلًا qanqalan	الْقَنْقَلَ al-qanqala	قَنْقَلَ qanqala
Genitive	قَنْقَلٍ qanqalin	الْقَنْقَلِ al-qanqali	قَنْقَلِ qanqali
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَنْقَلَيْن qanqalayn	الْقَنْقَلَيْن al-qanqalayn	قَنْقَلَيْ qanqalay
Nominative	قَنْقَلَانِ qanqalāni	الْقَنْقَلَانِ al-qanqalāni	قَنْقَلَا qanqalā
Accusative	قَنْقَلَيْنِ qanqalayni	الْقَنْقَلَيْنِ al-qanqalayni	قَنْقَلَيْ qanqalay
Genitive	قَنْقَلَيْنِ qanqalayni	الْقَنْقَلَيْنِ al-qanqalayni	قَنْقَلَيْ qanqalay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَنَاقِل qanāqil	الْقَنَاقِل al-qanāqil	قَنَاقِل qanāqil
Nominative	قَنَاقِلُ qanāqilu	الْقَنَاقِلُ al-qanāqilu	قَنَاقِلُ qanāqilu
Accusative	قَنَاقِلَ qanāqila	الْقَنَاقِلَ al-qanāqila	قَنَاقِلَ qanāqila
Genitive	قَنَاقِلَ qanāqila	الْقَنَاقِلِ al-qanāqili	قَنَاقِلِ qanāqili

References

• Fakhoury, Muḥammad, Khawam, Ṣalāh ad-Dīn (2002) موسوعة وحدات القياس العربية والإسلامية وما يعادلها بالمقادير الحديثة‎^[1] (in Arabic), Bayrūt: مكتبة لبنان ناشرون, →ISBN, pages 295–296
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 208
• Garosi, Eugenio (2022 December 1) “Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey”, in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World. From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 415