آبگینه

Persian

Alternative forms

آبگین (âbgin)

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾp̄ḵynk' (ābgēnag, “crystal, glass”), compound of ʾp̄ (āb, “water”) + -kyn' (-gēn) + -k' (-ag). Akin to Sogdian [script needed] (ʾʾpkyn-), [script needed] (ʾʾpkynʾk, “crystal”), Ossetian авг (avg) (Iron) / авгӕ (avgæ, “glass; bottle”) (Digor), and also Old Armenian ապակի (apaki), Coptic ⲁⲃⲁϫⲏⲓⲛⲓ (abačēini), and Hungarian üveg (“glass; bottle”); Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaːb.ɡiː.ˈna/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.ɡiː.nǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.ɡiː.nǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːb.ɡi.nǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːb.ɡʲiː.né]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔb.ɡi.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ābgīna
Dari reading^?	ābgīna
Iranian reading^?	âbgine
Tajik reading^?	obgina

Audio (Iran): (file)

Noun


Iranian Persian	آبگینه
Dari	آبگینه
Tajik	обгина

آبگینه • (âbgine) (plural آبگینه‌ها)

glass (substance)
Synonym: شیشه (šiše)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3958:
  آبگینه‌‌ی زرد چون سازی نقاب
  زرد بینی جمله نور آفتاب
  ābgina-i zard čōn sāzī niqāb
  zard bīnī jumla nūr-i āftāb
  When you make yellow glass a veil,
  you see all the sunlight yellow.
glass (drinking vessel)
Synonyms: لیوان (livân) (Iran), گیلاس (gêlâs) (Dari)
mirror
Synonym: آیینه (âyine)

References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “آبگینه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آبگینه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Lambton, Ann K.S. (1954) Persian Vocabulary, London: Cambridge University Press, page 3
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “آبگینه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ābgēnag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press