طِنْجِرٌ

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طِنْجِرٌ A certain vessel of copper or brass, in which one cooks, nearly resembling a طَبَق, without a cover; also called طِنْجِرَةٌ [vulgarly pronounced طَنْجَرَة and تَنْجَرَة, and now applied to a saucepan]: خَبِيص [q. v.] is made in it: (K in art. خبص:) an arabicized word; in Pers. پَاتِيلَهْ: (K: [in some copies of the K, and in the O, بَاتِيلَهْ:]) pl. of the former طَنَاجِيرُ [and of the latter طَنَاجِرُ. Accord. to the Msb, it is of the measure فِنْعِيلٌ: but accord. to the O and K, the ن is a radical letter.]
2 It is also used by the Arabs of our time as a metonymical appellalation of A coward: or a low, vile, or mean, person: as though they meant thereby a townsman, or villager, who constantly eats in cookingpots and bowls of copper; differing from the people of the desert.

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