یزدان

See also: يزدان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian یزدان (yazdân).

Proper noun

یزدان • (Yezdan)

1. (Zoroastrianism) God, the creator of good

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یزدان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2202

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian yẕdʾn' (yazdān, “gods, spirits”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁ǵ- (“to revere, worship, sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jaz.ˈdɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jæz.d̪ɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	yazdān
Dari reading?	yazdān
Iranian reading?	yazdân
Tajik reading?	yazdon

Noun

Dari	یزدان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	яздон

یَزْدان • (yazdân)

1. god
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 295:

     ز آن سبب فرمود یزدان و الضحی
     و الضحی‏ نور ضمیر مصطفی‏

     z-ān sabab farmūd yazdān waz-zuhā
     waz-zuhā nūr-i zamīr-i Mustafā

     For that reason God said, By the morn:
     by the morn is (refers to) the light of the hidden mind of Mustafá (Mohammed).

2. a divinity, an angel
3. an epithet of saints or prophets

Related terms

• یزدانی (yazdâni)
• ایزد (izad)

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian یزدان (yazdān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /jəz.d̪ɑːn/

Noun

یزدان • (yazdān) ?

1. God, the creator of good, Goddess of righteousness