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How to say "small coffee cup (Arabic) → the pot for boiling coffee over a fire (Israeli usage)" in Arabic

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Meaningsmall coffee cup (Arabic) → the pot for boiling coffee over a fire (Israeli usage)

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

فِنْجَان

finjānפנג'אן

فنجان

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

פינג'אן

finjanفِنْجَان

How the two words are related

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Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Another Persian loan inside Arabic before it became a Hebrew loan: finjān is simply the little cup Arabic coffee is served in. Israeli usage drifted the meaning sideways — a פינג'אן is specifically the small pot you boil the coffee in over a campfire, not the cup you drink it from.

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In a phrase

فِنْجَان قَهْوَة
finjān qahwaפנג'אן קהוה

a cup of coffee

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