طــنجر
طِـ
ـنْجِرَــةٌ: see the following paragraph.
طِـ
ـنْجِرٌ A certain vessel (
O,
Msb) of copper or brass, (
Msb,) in which one cooks, (
O,
Msb,) nearly resembling a طَبَق, (
Msb,) without a cover; (O;) also called ↓ طِـ
ـنْجِرَــةٌ [vulgarly pronounced طَـ
ـنْجَرَــة and تَـ
ـنْجَرَــة, and now applied to a saucepan]: (
TA:) 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 (
Msb) [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.]
b2: It is also used by the Arabs of our time as a metonymical appellalation of (
tropical:) 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. (
TA.)