ज़बान
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian زبان (zabān, zubān), from Middle Persian ŠNA / ʾwzwʾn' (uzwān), from Proto-Iranian *hižwaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáHs. Doublet of जीभ (jībh) and जिह्वा (jihvā), possibly cognate with English tongue. Compare Bengali জবান (joban), Gujarati જબાન (jabān).
Pronunciation
Noun
ज़बान • (zabān) f (Urdu spelling زُبان or زَبان)
- (anatomy) tongue
- language
- Synonyms: भाषा (bhāṣā), बोली (bolī), लिसान (lisān)
- (deprecated template usage) उर्दू के अलावा तुम्हें कौनसी ज़बानें आती हैं?
- urdū ke alāvā tumhẽ kaunsī zabānẽ ātī ha͠i?
- Besides Urdu, what other languages do you know?
Declension
Declension of ज़बान (fem cons-stem)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- मादरी ज़बान (mādrī zabān, “mothertongue”)
Categories:
- Hindi terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Hindi terms derived from Classical Persian
- Hindi terms derived from Middle Persian
- Hindi terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Hindi doublets
- Hindi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hindi lemmas
- Hindi nouns
- Hindi feminine nouns
- hi:Anatomy
- Hindi terms with usage examples
- Hindi feminine consonant-stem nouns