finjan

English

Noun

finjan (plural finjans)

1. In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, held instead in a zarf.
   • 1853, Habeeb Risk Allah Effendi, The thistle and the cedar of Lebanon, page 21:

     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.

   • 1961, R. Leslie Gourse, With gall and honey, page 76:

     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.

   • 2015, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain:

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

Alternative forms

• findjan

Spanish

Verb

finjan

1. inflection of fingir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative