لگن

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (lagan).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈla.ɡan/

Noun

لَگَن • (lagan) m (plural لْگُونِة (lgūne))

alternative form of لَكَن (lakan, “washbasin”)
- 2016, تعلم اللهجة البيروتية (taʕallam al-lahja l-bayrūtiyya) [Learn the Beiruti Dialect] (عكيف وعفيف (ʕakīf wa ʕafīf, “Akeef and Afeef”))‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 March 2023:
  عكيف: رُزْقالله على إيّام اللَّبِن باللَّگِن. ايه والله
  عفيف: ايه والله... رُزقالله... لبِن باللَّگِن
  ʕakīf: ruzʔ̣aḷḷa ʕala ʔiyyēm l-labin bi l-lagin. ʔē waḷḷa
  ʕafīf: ʔē waḷḷa... ruzʔ̣aḷḷa... labin bi l-lagin
  Akeef: God bless the good old days of yogurt in the basin. By God
  Afeef: Yeah, by God... those good old days... yogurt in the basin
  These characters are speaking in the traditional Old Beiruti dialect, which features an emphatic ق (/⁠ʔ̣⁠/), pausal raising of final ـَا (-a) to ـِي (-e), and raising of words on patterns like فَعَل (CaCaC) to فَعِل (CaCiC, with [i]) — notice لَگِن (lagin) instead of لَگَن (lagan).

Persian

Alternative forms

لگان (lagân), لکن (lakan)

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek λεκᾰ́νη (lekắnē).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /la.ˈɡan/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lä.ɡán]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lä.ɡán]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lä.ɡán]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [læ.ɡʲǽn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [lä.ɡán]

Readings
Classical reading^?	lagan
Dari reading^?	lagan
Iranian reading^?	lagan
Tajik reading^?	lagan

Noun

لگن • (lagan) (plural لگن‌ها (lagan-hā / lagan-hâ), Tajik spelling лаган)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: ləyən
→ Bashkir: ләғән (ləğən)
→ Chagatai: لَگَن (lägän)
- Uyghur: لېگەن (lëgen), لەگەن (legen)
- Uzbek: lagan
→ Kyrgyz: илеген (ilegen)
→ Middle Armenian: լական (lakan)
- Armenian: լագան (lagan)
→ Ottoman Turkish: لَگَن (leğen)
- Gagauz: leen
- Turkish: leğen, leğın, lehen, len, lan
- → Albanian: legen
- → Armenian: լէհէն (lēhēn), լէյէն (lēyēn), լէկէն (lēkēn)
- → Aromanian: liyeni, liyene, lieni, liene, liyen, lãyin, lãyini, lãyine, lãghin, lãghini, lãghine, ileni, ilene
- → Bulgarian: леге́н (legén), лее́н (leén), лие́н (lién), леи́н (leín), лии́н (liín), лехи́н (lehín)
- → Macedonian: леѓен (leǵen)
- → Romanian: lighean
- → Serbo-Croatian: lèđen / лѐђен
→ Pashto: لګن (lagán)
→ Tatar: ләгән (lägän)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “لگن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “لگن”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1095b