فرجية

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فراجه (ferece, ferace), from Byzantine Greek φορεσιά (phoresiá) – still Greek φορεσιά (foresiá), φόρεμα (fórema) –, from φέρω (phérō, “to bear”).

Noun

فَرَجِيَّة • (farajiyya) (plural فَرَاجِيّ (farājiyy))

1. a kind of robe, floating and with long sleeves, ferace

References

• Blažek, Václav (2009) “Slavonic languages”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 4, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 266
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فرجية”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 248
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎^[2] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 327-334
• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 51, page 299