اندلس

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Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic الْأَنْدَلُس (al-ʔandalus).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? andalus
Dari reading? andalus
Iranian reading? andalos
Tajik reading? andalus

Proper noun[edit]

اندلس (andalos)

  1. Andalusia (an autonomous community of Spain)
  2. (historical) al-Andalus, Islamic Iberia
    • c. 1250, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, “Ghazal 529”, in دیوان شمس تبریزی [Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī]‎[1]:
      آن کس که در مغرب بود یابد خورش از اندلس
      وان کس که در مشرق بود او نعمت هرمز خورد
      ān kas ki dar mağrib buwad yābad xwariš az andalus
      w-ān kas ki dar mašriq buwad ō ni'mat-i hurmuz xwarad
      He who is in the West finds sustenance from al-Andalus,
      And he who is in the East eats from the bounties of Hormuz.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading[edit]

Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian اندلس (ondolus), from Arabic الْأَنْدُلُس (al-ʔandulus).

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

اُنْدُلُس (undulusm (Hindi spelling अुंदुलुस)

  1. (historical) al-Andalus, Iberian Peninsula

References[edit]

  • اندلس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.