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▪ Probably a back-formation from the f. zuǧāǧaẗ, which is from Aram zgūgīṯā, Syr zgōgīṯā ʻglass, crystal’.
▪ Ultimately perh. from a Phoen word for ‘glass’, since glass was “invented” in Phoenicia around 2500 BC.

hist

▪ 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’

cogn

▪ DRS 8 (1999)#ZGG : not mentioned [!]. Because it is not regarded as Sem?
▪ Aram zgūgīṯā, Syr zgōgīṯā ʻglass, crystal’.

disc

▪ Nişanyan_22Jun2015: Ar zuǧāǧ < Aram zagāg ‘glazier, glass-maker’ < Aram zgūgīṯā ‘glass’.
▪ 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.¹ 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.
▪ Is the obsol. (ḥašīšaẗ al-) ^†zaǧāǧ ‘berries; glass-vessels of the clove-tree; pellitory, wall-wort’ (Lane, Hava1899) dependent on zuǧāǧ(aẗ) ‘glass’?

1. LA, iii, 112.

west

▪ Tu zücaciye (1680 Meninski, Thesaurus), from Ar zuǧāǧ (+ nsb-ending -ī + f. -aẗ) – Nişanyan_22Jun2015.

deriv

► zaǧǧaǧa, vb. II, 1 see ↗zaǧǧa (al-ḥaǧibayn). – 2 to glaze, coat with glass (s.th.); to enamel (s.th.): denom., applicative.

► ^BP#4490 zuǧāǧaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n.f., 1 piece of glass; 2 (glass) bottle, flask; 3 (drinking) glass, tumbler: n.un.
► 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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