ارزان

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See also: ارزاں

Baluchi

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Adjective

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ارزان (arzán)

  1. cheap
  2. inexpensive

Khalaj

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Adjective

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اَرزان (arzân or ərzân)

  1. Arabic spelling of arzân, ərzân (cheap)

Pashto

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ارزان (arzān)

  1. cheap

Declension

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See also

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Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlcʾn /⁠arzān⁠/), 𐫀𐫡𐫉𐫀𐫗 (ʾrzʾn /⁠arzān⁠/, valuable, worthy), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlc /⁠arz⁠/, worth, value) + [Book Pahlavi needed] (-ʾn /⁠-ān⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Hárǰ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hárǰʰ (to be worth). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫋𐫀𐫗 (ʾrjʾn /⁠aržān⁠/, worthy), Talysh ارژون (erjon), Northern Kurdish erzan and the following Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian արժան (aržan, worthy; cheap), Classical Syriac ܐܪܙܢ (ʾarzān, cheap).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? arzān
Dari reading? arzān
Iranian reading? arzân
Tajik reading? arzon
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Adjective

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Dari ارزان
Iranian Persian
Tajik арзон

ارزان (arzân) (comparative ارزان‌تَر (arzân-tar), superlative ارزان‌تَرین (arzân-tarin))

  1. cheap, inexpensive
    Antonym: گران (gerân, expensive)
    • c. 1260, Rumi, “3:1001”, in The Masnavi:
      خویشتن را آدمی ارزان فروخت، بود اطلس خویش بر دلقی بدوخت
      xwēštan-rā ādamē arzân furōxt, būd atlas xwēš bar dalqē bidōxt
      man sold himself for cheap; he was satin, but sewed himself to a dervish's rags.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, pages 52, 53
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “arzān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 296
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 166-167

Ushojo

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Etymology

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From Persian ارزان (arzân).

Noun

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اَرزان (arzān)

  1. cheap