حیوان

See also: حيوان‎

Khalaj

Noun

حَیوان (həyvân) (definite accusative حَیوانؽ‎, plural حَیوانلار‎)

1. Arabic spelling of həyvân (“animal”)

Declension

Declension of حیوان

	singular	plural
nominative	حیوان	حیوانلار‎
genitive	حیوانؽیݧ‎	حیوانلارؽیݧ‎
dative	حیوانقا‎	حیوانلارقا‎
definite accusative	حیوانؽ‎	حیوانلارؽ‎
locative	حیوانچا‎	حیوانلارچا‎
ablative	حیواندان‎	حیوانلاردان‎
instrumental	حیوانلان‎	حیوانلارلان‎
equative	حیوانوارا‎	حیوانلاروارا‎
quantitative	حیوانقَدَر‎	حیوانلارقَدَر‎

Ottoman Turkish

حیوانات

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان‎ (ḥayawān), probably through Persian حیوان‎ (heyvân).

Noun

حیوان • (hayvan) (plural حیوانات‎ (hayvanat))

1. animal, any multicellular organism in the clade Animalia

   Synonym: جانور‎ (canavar)

2. (figurative) brute, beast, a person who behaves in a uncivilized manner
3. beast of burden, draught animal, any animal that carries or pulls a load

Derived terms

• حیوان ناطق‎ (hayvan-ı natık, “human, man”)
• حیوانجه‎ (hayvanca, “brutal, wild”)
• حیوانلق‎ (hayvanlık, “brutishness, brutality”)
• حیوانی‎ (hayvanı, “pertaining to animals”)

 

Related terms

• حیوانیت‎ (hevaniyet)

Descendants

• Turkish: hayvan
• → Albanian: hajvan
• → Greek: χαϊβάνι (chaïváni)
• → Macedonian: ајван (ajvan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: hajvan / хајван

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hayvan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1917
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “حیوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 524
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Animal”, 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, Vienna, column 63
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “حیوان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1828
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hayvan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “حیوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 817

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic حَيَوَان‎ (ḥayawān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [haj.ˈwɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [häj.wɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [häj.wɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäj.wɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi/approx.) IPA^(key): [ʔäj.wɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal/TEH) IPA^(key): [hej.vɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal/DUS) IPA^(key): [häj.vɔ́n]

• Phonetic Persian:

Traditional: [هَیْوان]‎

Iranian: [هِیْوان]‎

Readings
Classical reading?	haywān
Dari reading?	haywān
Iranian reading?	heyvân
Tajik reading?	hayvon

• Rhymes: -ân

Noun

Dari	حیوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳайвон

حِیْوان • (heyvân) (plural حیوانات‎ (heyvânât) or حیوانان‎ (heyvânân))

1. animal

   Synonym: جانْوَر‎ (jânvar)

   ‏حیوان وحشی‎ ― heyvân-e vahši ― wild animal

2. (offensive) beast, brute; person who behaves wildly
3. (literary) life, vital force; (in particular) eternal life

   Synonym: حیات‎ (hayât)

   ‏آب حیوان‎ ― âb-e heyvân ― water of life

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2596:

     ‏آب حیوان خوان مخوان این را سخن / روح نو بین در تن حرف کهن‌‌‎

     âb-i-haywân xwân maxwân en râ suxan / rûh-i-naw ben dar tan-i-harf-i-kuhan

     Call it the Water of Life, call it not a discourse: behold the new spirit in the body of the old letter!.

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حیوان‎ (haywān), from Arabic حَيَوَان‎ (ḥayawān).

Noun

حیوان • (haivān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹੈਵਾਨ)

1. animal
2. beast

Synonyms

• جانور‎ (jānvar)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حیوان‎ (haywān), from Arabic حَيَوَان‎ (ḥayawān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɛː.ʋɑːn/

Noun

حَیوان • (haivān) m (Hindi spelling हैवान)

1. beast
2. animal

Synonyms

• جانْوَر‎ (jānvar)

Derived terms

• حیوانی‎ (haivānī)
• حیوانیت‎ (haivāniyat, “bestiality”)
• حیوانیات‎ (haivāniyāt, “zoology”)