بادبان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بادبان (bâdbân, “sail”).

Noun

بادبان • (badban)

1. (literary, poetic) sail, a piece of fabric attached to a boat

   Synonyms: شراع (şiraʿ), یلكن (yelken)

Descendants

• Turkish: badban

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “badban”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 419
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بادبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Velum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1725
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بادبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 631
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بادبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 317

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian wʾtpʾn' (wādbān). By surface analysis, باد (bâd, “wind”) +‎ بان (bân, “keeper; see ـبان)”).

Compare typologically Russian ветри́ло (vetrílo) < ве́тер (véter) (cognate via Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɒːd̪ˈbɒn]

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Iranian Persian	بادبان
Tajik	бодбон

بادبان • (bâdbân) (plural بادبان‌ها)

1. (nautical) sail

Derived terms

• بادبانی (bâdbâni)
• قایق بادبانی (qâyeq-e bâdbâni)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادبان (bādbān).

Noun

بادبان • (bādbān) m (Hindi spelling बादबान)

1. (nautical) sail

Derived terms

• بادبانی (bādbāni)