مجان

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَجَّان (majjān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mad͡ʒ.d͡ʒɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.d͡ʒɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.d͡ʒɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.d͡ʒɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.d͡ʒɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæd͡ʒ.d͡ʒɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd͡ʒ.d͡ʒɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	majjān
Dari reading?	majjān
Iranian reading?	majjân
Tajik reading?	majjon

Dari	مجان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	маҷон

Adjective

مجان • (majjân)

1. gratuitous
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 371:

     مرد میراثی چه داند قدر مال
     رستمی جان کند و مجان یافت زال‏

     mard-i mīrāsī či dānad qadr-i māl
     Rustam-ē jān kunad u majjān yāft Zāl

     How should a man who inherits know the value of wealth?
     A Rustam tore his soul (in acquiring it), (whereas) Zál got it cost-free.

2. abundant, sufficient

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مجان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul