اندلس

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْأَنْدَلُس (al-ʔandalus).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔan.da.ˈlus]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lʊ́s]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lʊ́s]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lʊ́s]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lús]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæn̪.d̪æ.lós]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lús]

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

Proper noun

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

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “اندلس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “اندلس”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʊn.d̪ʊ.lʊs/
• Rhymes: -ʊs
• Hyphenation: اُنْ‧دُ‧لُس

Proper noun

اُنْدُلُس • (undulus) m (Hindi spelling अुंदुलुस)

1. (historical) al-Andalus, Iberian Peninsula

References

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