منجل

Arabic

Etymology

Tool noun from the root ن ج ل (n-j-l), apparently because it cuts نَجِيل (najīl).

Noun

مِنْجَل • (minjal) m (plural مَنَاجِل (manājil))

1. scythe, sickle
2. machete

Declension

Declension of noun مِنْجَل (minjal)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِنْجَل minjal	الْمِنْجَل al-minjal	مِنْجَل minjal
Nominative	مِنْجَلٌ minjalun	الْمِنْجَلُ al-minjalu	مِنْجَلُ minjalu
Accusative	مِنْجَلًا minjalan	الْمِنْجَلَ al-minjala	مِنْجَلَ minjala
Genitive	مِنْجَلٍ minjalin	الْمِنْجَلِ al-minjali	مِنْجَلِ minjali
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مِنْجَلَيْن minjalayn	الْمِنْجَلَيْن al-minjalayn	مِنْجَلَيْ minjalay
Nominative	مِنْجَلَانِ minjalāni	الْمِنْجَلَانِ al-minjalāni	مِنْجَلَا minjalā
Accusative	مِنْجَلَيْنِ minjalayni	الْمِنْجَلَيْنِ al-minjalayni	مِنْجَلَيْ minjalay
Genitive	مِنْجَلَيْنِ minjalayni	الْمِنْجَلَيْنِ al-minjalayni	مِنْجَلَيْ minjalay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنَاجِل manājil	الْمَنَاجِل al-manājil	مَنَاجِل manājil
Nominative	مَنَاجِلُ manājilu	الْمَنَاجِلُ al-manājilu	مَنَاجِلُ manājilu
Accusative	مَنَاجِلَ manājila	الْمَنَاجِلَ al-manājila	مَنَاجِلَ manājila
Genitive	مَنَاجِلَ manājila	الْمَنَاجِلِ al-manājili	مَنَاجِلِ manājili

Derived terms

• أَبُو مَنْجِيل (ʔabū manjīl, “ibis”)
• مِنْجَلِيّ (minjaliyy, “sickle-related”)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِنْجَل (minjal, “sickle; machete”).

Noun

منجل • (mincel) (plural مناجل (menacil))

1. sickle, a tool having a semicircular knife, used for cutting long grass

   Synonyms: اوراق (orak), داس (das)

2. chalkboard eraser, a rag, duster or sponge for rubbing out chalk marks

Descendants

• Turkish: mincel

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mincel”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3229
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mincel”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 776
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Falx”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 548
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “منجل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4945
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منجل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1994