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fingan

fingan is the alternative form of finjan.

Meaning of finjan

Noun

finjan (plural finjans)

  1. In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.
    • On each side is a tray, covered with a snoy napkin, the edges worked with gold and silver flowers, upon one are handsome finjans in filigree, silver coffee-cups, and sugar-basins; on the other, cut-glass saucers full of delicious candied sweetmeats, of which the orange- flower, violet and rose are...1853, Habeeb Risk Allah Effendi, The thistle and the cedar of Lebanon, page 21

Forms of fingan

pluralfingans

Questions about fingan

What is fingan the alternative form of?
Fingan is the alternative form of finjan.

Words near fingan in the dictionary

  1. Fingal Head
  2. Fingal's Cave
  3. Fingalian
  4. Fingall
  5. Fingallian
  6. fingan
  7. fingans
  8. fingent
  9. finger
  10. finger ache
  11. finger aches

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