Finjan
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Finjan is a noun meaning In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.
Meaning
In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- finjans
- findjan
- fingan
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include findjan, zarf, zurf, jezve, ibrik, cantharus.
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