Arabic

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سُجَناء

Etymology 1

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Root
س ج ن (s j n)
4 terms

Pronunciation

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Noun

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سَجِين (sajīnm (plural سُجَناء (sujanāʔ) or سَجْنَى (sajnā) or سَجِينُونَ (sajīnūna), feminine سَجِينَة (sajīna))

  1. prisoner, inmate
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Adjective

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سَجِين (sajīn) (feminine سَجِينَة (sajīna), masculine plural سُجَناء (sujanāʔ) or سَجْنَى (sajnā) or سَجِينُونَ (sajīnūna), feminine plural سَجِينَات (sajīnāt) or سَجْنَى (sajnā) or سَجَائِن (sajāʔin))

  1. imprisoned
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Etymology 2

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Unknown, possible an invented word on the basis of سِجْن (sijn) and analogical to عِلِّيِّين (ʕilliyyīn), compare also سَجَنْجَل (sajanjal); the definition given by the Qurʔān itself as كِتَابٌ مَرْقُومٌ (kitābun marqūmun) may even be due to glossema.

Noun

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سِجِّين (sijjīnm

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: Antonym: عِلِّيُون (ʕilliyūn)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 83:7-9:
      كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ / وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ / كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ
      kallā ʔinna kitāba l-fujjāri lafī sijjīnin / wamā ʔadrāka mā sijjīnun / kitābun marqūmun
      No! Indeed, the record of the wicked is in sijjeen. And what can make you know what is sijjeen? It is [their destination recorded in] a register inscribed.
    1. the Underworld, a bottomless pit, an infernal prison, Hades, Sheol, the abyss, often decipted under the seven Earths.
      Synonyms: هَاوِيَة (hāwiya), شَاؤُول (šāʔūl), هَادِيس (hādīs), الْعَالَمُ السُّفْلِيِ (al-ʕālamu s-sufliyi)
    2. the Hell
      Synonyms: سَعِير (saʕīr), لَظَىٰ (laẓā), النَّار (an-nār), جَهَنَّم (jahannam), جَحِيم (jaḥīm), حُطَمَة (ḥuṭama), سَقَر (saqar)
      1. The lowest hellhole in the Hell
        Synonym: دَرْك (dark)
    3. the seventh Earth
    4. the record of the wicked
    5. an intensive/diminutive form of سِجْن (sijn, prison)

References

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  • Grimme, Hubert (1912) “Über einige Klassen südarabischer Lehnwörter im Koran”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete[1] (in German), volume 26, page 163
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 165
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