دنجل

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish دنگل (dingil).

Alternative forms

• دنكل (dingil, dungul)

Noun

دنجل • (dingil, dungul) m (plural دناجل (danāgil))

1. axle
2. sharper, swindler

Verb

دنجل • (dangil) Iq

1. to go on the hog train by attachment near the axletree
2. to finesse, to trick

Etymology 2

From English dongle.

Alternative forms

• دونجل (dongol)

Noun

دنجل • (dongol) m

1. dongle, a device faciliting transmission of information to another computer in spite of incompatible interfaces

References

• Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986), A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎^[1], Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 304b
• Littmann, Enno (1954), “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern‎^[2], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →DOI, page 117
• Spiro, Socrates (1895), “دنجل”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 206a
• Vollers, Karl (1897), “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 51, page 307 Nr. 45
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “دنجل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 339b