A good Scrabble find: zarf is a cup holder, from Arabic. The small cup that sits inside the zarf is a fingen, another handy tile rack winner. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “What Goes in a “Zarf”? A “Finjan””
Grant, you know what a zarf is. You’ve played enough words with friends to know that Z-A-R-F.
It’s a cup that comes from Arabic. A kind of cup holder. But it’s the cup holder itself that’s the zarf.
Do you know what the thing in the cup that goes in the zarf is?
I don’t.
It’s a fingen. F-I-N-G-E-N.
Oh, nice. Learn that from listener Julia Gaydon.
Yeah, zarf. It’s a great Scrabble word or words with friends word, right?
Yeah, and now you have fingen.
Fingen. Moon. Lovely.
What’s your Scrabble treasure? What’s the word that you pull out when times are desperate on the Scrabble tiles?
