# سكرجة
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* أُسْكُرُّجَة (ʔuskurruja)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian corresponding to Classical Persian سکرچه (sukarrača). سکرجه (sokarraja), see Persian سکوره (sokure).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /su.kur.ra.d͡ʒa/, /su.kur.ru.d͡ʒa/, /suk.ru.d͡ʒa/

### Noun

سُكْرُجَة or سُكُرُّجَة or سُكُرَّجَة • (sukruja or sukurruja or sukurraja) f (plural سَكَارِيج (sakārīj)) (archaic)
* a kind of small bowl-shaped plate for side dishes, like for sauces for meat, as well as chemistry applications
** 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 70:14:مَا عَلِمْتُ النَّبِيَّ أَكَلَ عَلَى سُكُرُّجَةٍ قَطُّ، وَلَا خُبِزَ لَهُ مُرَقَّقٌ قَطُّ، وَلَا أَكَلَ عَلَى خِوَانٍmā ʕalimtu n-nabiyya ʔakala ʕalā sukurrujatin qaṭṭu, wa-lā ḵubiza la-hū muraqqaqun qaṭṭu, wa-lā ʔakala ʕalā ḵiwāninHe never ate from a side-dish plate, never had crumbled bread, and never ate on the table.
** a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد [ʾāṯār al-bilād wa-ʾaḵbār al-ʿibād]‎, Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1848, page 249 line 9:
* a weight measure used as well in cookery as in pharmacy of a bowl containing 125 grams
** a. 1165, ابن التلميذ [Ibn al-Tilmīḏ], edited by Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn At-Tilmīḏ الأقراباذين الكبير (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 70), Leiden: Brill, published 2007, →ISBN, page 135 Nr. 288:دهن الحسك حسك مرضوض عشرة دراهم زنجبيل أربعة دراهم دهن حل أسكرجة ماء عذب خمس عشرة أسكرجةCaltrop oil Crushed caltrop ten dirham; ginger four dirham; sesame oil one cupful; fresh water fiteen cupfuls.
* cutting-disk of a threshing-sledge – Schneidscheibe des Dreschschlittens
* socket of a door hinge – Angelpfanne einer Tür
** 1890, Muḥammad Bey ʕuṯmān Galāl, edited by Friedrich Kern, النساء العالمات [The Learned Ladies], Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, published 1898, page 112:طيب، وقصيد الشيخ مليجي وإبرهيم، وخطبة الشيخ سكرجة والشيخ كليم، ليه ما طبعتوهم، ولا أخذوا فلوس، في أجرة الشمعة، وتصليح الفَنوس؟Well, and the qasida of Sheykh Malīgī and ʔIbrahīm, and the speech of Sheykh Hinge-Socket and the speech of Sheykh Carpet, why have you not printed them, and they received naught to redeem dedicated brooding by the candle, screwing the lamplet?

#### Descendants

* → Sicilian: scurruggia

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سكرجة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 668b
* Freytag, Georg (1830) “سكرجة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 334a
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سكرجة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 1114a
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “سكرجة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1392a
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سكرجة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 581b