zuǧāǧaẗ زُجاجَة , pl. ‑āt
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√ZǦː (ZǦǦ)
1 piece of glass; 2 (glass) bottle, flask; 3 (drinking) glass, tumbler – WehrCowan1979.
▪ The word looks as if it were a n.un., formed from the coll.n. ↗zuǧāǧ ‘glass’. Etymologically, however, zuǧāǧ may be a back-formation made from zuǧāǧaẗ.
▪ eC7 zuǧāǧaẗ (glass container) Q 24:35 al-miṣbāḥu fī zuǧāǧaẗin il-zuǧāǧaẗu kaʔanna-hā kawkabun durriyyun ‘the lamp is in a glass container, and the glass is like a shimmering star’
▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZGG : not mentioned [!] - because regarded as non-Sem?
▪ From Aram zgūgīṯā, Syr zgōgīṯā ʻglass, crystal’.
▪ As mentioned above in section CONC, the word looks as if it were a n.un., formed from the coll.n. ↗zuǧāǧ ‘glass’. Etymologically, however, zuǧāǧaẗ seems to have been the word to have been loaned: from Aram zgūgīṯā, Syr zgōgīṯā ʻglass, crystal’.
▪ Jeffery1938, 149-50 (on Qurʔānic zuǧāǧaẗ): »There was some uncertainty as to the vowelling of the word, whether zuǧāǧaẗ; zaǧāǧaẗ or ziǧāǧaẗ. The philologers attempt to derive it from ↗zaǧǧa though they do not suggest how it can be explained from this root.3
Fraenkel, Fremdw, 64, showed that it has no verbal root in Ar, and suggested that it is the Aram זגוגיתא, Syr zgōgīṯā meaning ʻglass’ or ʻcrystal’. The Syr word is early and quite common, and it was probably when the Arabs came to use glass that they took over the word along with the article.«
▪ Nişanyan believes that the ultimate origin of the word must be Phoenicia where glass was “invented” around 2500 BC.
► zaǧǧaǧa, vb. II, 1 see ↗zaǧǧa (al-ḥaǧibayn). – 2 to glaze, coat with glass (s.th.); to enamel (s.th.): denom., applicative. ► BP#3050 zuǧāǧ, n., glass (as substance): n.coll., perh. a back-formation from zuǧāǧaẗ.
► zuǧāǧī, adj., glassy, vitreous: nsb-adj.
► zaǧǧāǧ, n., glazier: n.prof.
► muzaǧǧaǧ, adj., glazed, enameled: PP II | muzaǧǧaǧāt and maṣnūʕāt muzaǧǧaǧaẗ, n.f. pl., enameled ware. For other values of the root, cf. ↗zuǧǧ, ↗zaǧǧa, ↗ʔazaǧǧᵘ, and (for the general picture) ↗ZǦː (ZǦǦ).
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