Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

finjan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fin-jan
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.

Example Sentences

"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."
"The coffee-shops were already crowded with lean and hungry customers, the pipes were filled and lighted, and the coffee smoked in the finjans."
"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."

Inflected Forms

finjans (plural) findjan (alternative) fingan (alternative)

Questions

What does finjan mean?: In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.

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