Also 7 fin-ion, 9 fingian. [Arab. finjān, in Egypt fingān.] A small porcelain coffee-cup, used in the Levant.
1609. W. Biddulph, in T. Lavender, Trav. Englishmen, 66. A Fin-ion or Scudella of Coffa.
1836. Lane, Mod. Egyptians, I. 168. The coffee-cup (which is called finga′n) is small; generally holding not quite an ounce and a half of liquid. It is of porcelain, or Dutch-ware, and, being without a handle, is placed within another cup (called zurf), of silver or brass, according to the circumstances of the owner, and, both in shape and size, nearly resembling our egg-cup.
1842. Lady H. Stanhope, Mem. (1845), I. iii. 81. Ordering sherbet, the pipe, coffee and a finjàn of orange-flower water.
