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كنج

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to a specific city in Persia and a type of woven silk fabric. It also includes a nisba adjective derived from the fabric.

Derived headwords

كُنْجَةname
  1. 1.
    city in Persiaclassical

    A great city located in the region of Persia.

الْكَنْجnoun
  1. 1.
    type of silkclassical

    A specific kind of woven silk fabric.

كَنْجِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    related to silkclassical

    A nisba adjective, derived from 'al-kanj' (a type of silk), used to describe something related to it. The derivation is irregular.

Parallel reading

وكنجة، بالفتح: مدينة عظيمة بفارس.
And Kunjah, with a fatha [on the kaf]: a great city in Persia.
واستدرك شيخنا: الكنج، بفتح فسكون: وهو من أنواع الحرير المنسوج، والنسبة كنجي، بالكسر على غير قياس، وهو في نواحي المشرق أكثر استعمالا منه في نواحي المغرب.
And our shaykh added: Al-kanj, with a fatha and sukun [on the jim]: which is of the types of woven silk, and the nisba is kanji, with a kasra, which is irregular. It is more commonly used in the regions of the East than in the regions of the West.