فيج

See also: قبج, قبح, فتح, and ف ت ح

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pdk' /⁠payg⁠/, “foot-soldier, foot-walker, courier”) (Classical Persian پیگ (payg)). Also found as Classical Syriac ܦܱܝܓܳܐ (paygā, “foot-soldier”) and Old Armenian պայիկ (payik, “foot-soldier”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fajd͡ʒ/

Noun

فَيْج • (fayj) m (plural فُيُوج (fuyūj)) [6th century]

  1. (obsolete) legman, courier, messenger
    Synonyms: فُرَانِق (furāniq), قَيْنَاب (qaynāb), قَانِب (qānib), رَسُول (rasūl)
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  2. obsolete form of فَوْج (fawj, “company, group of people”).

Declension
Declension of noun فَيْج (fayj)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَيْج
fayj		 الْفَيْج
al-fayj		 فَيْج
fayj
Nominative فَيْجٌ
fayjun		 الْفَيْجُ
al-fayju		 فَيْجُ
fayju
Accusative فَيْجًا
fayjan		 الْفَيْجَ
al-fayja		 فَيْجَ
fayja
Genitive فَيْجٍ
fayjin		 الْفَيْجِ
al-fayji		 فَيْجِ
fayji
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فَيْجَيْن
fayjayn		 الْفَيْجَيْن
al-fayjayn		 فَيْجَيْ
fayjay
Nominative فَيْجَانِ
fayjāni		 الْفَيْجَانِ
al-fayjāni		 فَيْجَا
fayjā
Accusative فَيْجَيْنِ
fayjayni		 الْفَيْجَيْنِ
al-fayjayni		 فَيْجَيْ
fayjay
Genitive فَيْجَيْنِ
fayjayni		 الْفَيْجَيْنِ
al-fayjayni		 فَيْجَيْ
fayjay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فُيُوج
fuyūj		 الْفُيُوج
al-fuyūj		 فُيُوج
fuyūj
Nominative فُيُوجٌ
fuyūjun		 الْفُيُوجُ
al-fuyūju		 فُيُوجُ
fuyūju
Accusative فُيُوجًا
fuyūjan		 الْفُيُوجَ
al-fuyūja		 فُيُوجَ
fuyūja
Genitive فُيُوجٍ
fuyūjin		 الْفُيُوجِ
al-fuyūji		 فُيُوجِ
fuyūji

References
  • “pyg”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • “فيج” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فيج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 292
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فيج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 385
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فيج”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 652
  • Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 74
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فيج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2469
  • Maggi, Mauro (2003) “New Persian Glosses in East Syriac Texts of the Eighth to Tenth Centuries”, in Paul, Ludwig, editor, Persian Origins. Early Judaeo-Persian and the Emergence of New Persian. Collected Papers of the Symposium, Göttingen 1999, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1890) Beiträge zur Geschichte des Alexanderromans (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-Historische Classe; XXXVIII) (in German), Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 14
  • Silverstein, Adam J. (2007) Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 19–20
  • Yarshater, Ehsan (1998) “The Persian presence in the Islamic world”, in Hovannisian, Richard G., Sabagh, Georges, editors, The Persian presence in the Islamic world, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51
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