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jofaina

washbasin; a wide, shallow bowl for washing your face and handsvasija ancha y poco honda para lavarse la cara y las manos

Comes from Arabic

جُفَيْنَة

jufayna

“small bowl (diminutive of jafna)”«escudilla pequeña (diminutivo de jafna)»

Arabic today says

طَسْت

ṭast

Root

ج ف ن

j-f-n

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

It is the diminutive of jafna, the large wooden bowl of the Bedouin kitchen: "the little bowl".Es el diminutivo de jafna, la gran escudilla de madera de la cocina beduina: «la jofainita».

In a sentence

Se lavó la cara en la jofaina.

He washed his face in the washbasin.

غَسَلَ وَجْهَهُ فِي الطَّسْت.

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