فنطاس

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Arabic

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Etymology

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With well-known augmented alveolar nasal between a first and second radical from the root ف ط س (f-ṭ-s) in its meaning of flatness, being trodden down, having a depression – although by now this connection is not necessarily there and containers denoted by this word are as well bulky.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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فِنْطَاس (finṭāsm (plural فَنَاطِيس (fanāṭīs))

  1. tank, reservoir, cistern
  2. trough
  3. crate, large container
  4. (definite) Al-Finṭās an area in Kuwait

Declension

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Derived terms

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  • English: fantass

References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فنطاس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 376
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فنطاس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 638
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فنطاس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2449
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فنطاس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 983