بوزینه

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian [Term?]; compare Pashto بيزو (bízo, “monkey”). Anciently borrowed into Old East Slavic обезьꙗ́на (obezĭjána) whence Russian обезья́на (obezʹjána, “monkey, ape”), and likely into Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰤 (béčin, “monkey”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.ˈna]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.nǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.nǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.nǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bu.zi.nǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.né]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bu.zi.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	būzīna
Dari reading?	būzīna
Iranian reading?	buzine
Tajik reading?	buzina

Noun

بوزینه • (buzine)

1. monkey; ape

   Synonyms: میمون (meymun), کپی (kapi)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 282:

     هرچه مردم می‌‌کند بوزینه هم
     آن کند کز مرد بیند دم‌‌به‌‌دم

     harči mardum mē-kunad būzīna ham
     ān kunad k-az mard bēnad dam ba dam

     Whatever a man does, the ape at every moment does the same thing that he sees done by the man.

Alternative forms

• بوزنه (buzane), ابوزینه (abuzine) (obsolete)

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: ապուզնայ (apuznay)