Looking for some good Scrabble words? Try zarf, a type of cup holder of Arabic origin, or finjan, the small cup that’s held by the zarf. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Zarf and 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?
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