finjan
English
Noun
finjan (plural finjans)
- In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.
- 1853, Habeeb Risk Allah Effendi, The thistle and the cedar of Lebanon, page 21:
- On each side is a tray, covered with a snoy napkin, the edges worked with gold and silver flowers, upon one are handsome finjans in filigree, silver coffee-cups, and sugar-basins; on the other, cut-glass saucers full of delicious candied sweetmeats, of which the orange- flower, violet and rose are the most fragrant.
- 1961, R. Leslie Gourse, With gall and honey, page 76:
- Luis spooned Turkish coffee and sugar into a finjan and, after lighting the stoves in an accomplished manner, he cooked the eggs and boiled the coffee three times.
- 2015, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain:
- The coffee-shops were already crowded with lean and hungry customers, the pipes were filled and lighted, and the coffee smoked in the finjans.
Spanish
Verb
finjan