دنجل

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish دنگل (dingil).

Alternative forms
  • دنكل (dingil, dungul)

Noun

دنجل • (dingil, dungul) m (plural دناجل (danāgil))

  1. axle
  2. sharper, swindler

Verb

دنجل • (dangil) Iq

  1. to go on the hog train by attachment near the axletree
  2. to finesse, to trick

Etymology 2

From English dongle.

Alternative forms
  • دونجل (dongol)

Noun

دنجل • (dongol) m

  1. dongle, a device faciliting transmission of information to another computer in spite of incompatible interfaces

References
  • Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 304b
  • Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern‎, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 117
  • Spiro, Socrates (1895) “دنجل”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 206a
  • Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 51, page 307 Nr. 45
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “دنجل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 339b
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