دارچین

Azerbaijani

Noun

دارچین (darçın) (definite accusative دارچینی (darçını), plural دارچینلار (darçınlar))

1. Arabic spelling of darçın (“cinnamon”)

Declension

Declension of دارچین

	singular	plural
nominative	دارچین	دارچینلار
definite accusative	دارچینێ	دارچینلارێ
dative	دارچینا	دارچینلارا
locative	دارچیندا	دارچینلاردا
ablative	دارچیندان	دارچینلاردان
definite genitive	دارچینێن	دارچینلارێن

Central Kurdish

Noun

دارچین (darçîn)

1. cinnamon

Ottoman Turkish

دارچین

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dóru

Proto-Indo-Iranian *dā́ru

Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v)der.

Old Chinese 秦 (*zin)der.?

Sanskrit चीन (cīna)der.

Classical Persian دَارْچِین (dārčīn)bor.

Ottoman Turkish دارچین

Borrowed from Persian دارچین (dârčin, “cinnamon”), from Middle Persian *dār-i-čēnīk (literally “Chinese tree”).

Noun

دارچین • (darçın, tarçın)

1. cinnamon, a spice from the dried bark of several trees of the genus Cinnamomum

Derived terms

• دارچین آغاجی (darçın ağacı, “cinnamon tree”)
• دارچین صویی (darçın suyu, “distilled cinnamon water”)
• دارچینی (darçıni, “related to cinnamon”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tarçın
• → Albanian: darçin (regional)
• → Bulgarian: дарчи́н (darčín)
• → Macedonian: дарчин (darčin)
• → Serbo-Croatian: darčin / дарчин, tarčin / тарчин (regional)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tarçın1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4607
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “دارچین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 216a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دارچین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 561
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cinnamomum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 181
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دارچین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2001
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tarçın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دارچین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 881

Persian

Alternative forms

• دارچینی (dārčīnī / dârčini)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dóru

Proto-Indo-Iranian *dā́ru

Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v)der.

Old Chinese 秦 (*zin)der.?

Sanskrit चीन (cīna)der.

Persian دارچین

From Middle Persian *dār-ī-čēnīg (literally “Chinese tree”), ultimately a combination of Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v, “tree”) + Sanskrit चीन (cīna, “China”) + -𐎡𐎣 (-i-k, adjectival suffix, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-ikas). Note also from the same source are Jewish Babylonian Aramaic דַּרְצִינִי (darṣīnī, “cinnamon”), Classical Syriac ܕܪܨܝܢܝ (dārṣīnī), ܨܝܢܕܪܓ (ṣīndreḡ, “cinnamon”) and Old Armenian դարիճենիկ (daričenik, “cinnamon”). By surface analysis, دار (dâr, “tree; wood”) +‎ چین (čin, “China”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /daːr.ˈt͡ʃiːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːɾ.t͡ʃʰiːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːɾ.t͡ʃʰiːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːl.t͡ʃʰiːn], [d̪ɑːɾ.t͡ʃʰiːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔːɾ.t͡ʃʰin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːɹ.t͡ʃʰiːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔɾ.t͡ʃʰin]

Readings
Classical reading?	dārčīn
Dari reading?	dārčīn
Iranian reading?	dârčin
Tajik reading?	dorčin

Noun

دارچین • (dārčīn / dârčin) (Tajik spelling дорчин)

1. cinnamon

Descendants

• → Arabic: دَارْصِينِيّ (dārṣīniyy), دَار صِينِيّ (dār ṣīniyy), دَارَصِينِيّ الصِين (dāraṣīniyy aṣ-ṣīn), دَارْصِين (dārṣīn), دَارْسِين (dārsīn)
  • → Middle Armenian: դարիսեն (darisen), դարիսէն (darisēn), դարիսենի (dariseni), դարսենի (darseni), դարսենիկ (darsenik), դարսենեկ (darsenek)
  • → Swahili: dalasini
• → Armenian: դարչին (darčʻin), դարիչին (daričʻin)
• → Azerbaijani: darçın / دارچین / дарчын
• → Baluchi: [script needed] (dār-čīnī)
• → Bashkir: дәрсен (dərsen)
• → Bats: დარიჩი (dariči)
• → Bengali: দারচিনি (darcini)
• → Georgian: დარიჩინი (daričini), დარიჭინი (darič̣ini)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दारचीनी (dārcīnī)

  Urdu: دَارْچِینِی (dārcīnī)

• → Kazakh: даршын (darşyn)
• → Marathi: दालचिनी (dālcinī)
• → Ottoman Turkish: دارچین (darçin, tarçin)
  • Turkish: tarçın
  • → Albanian: darçin (regional)
  • → Bulgarian: дарчи́н (darčín)
  • → Macedonian: дарчин (darčin)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: darčin / дарчин, tarčin / тарчин (regional)
• → Pashto: دارچيني (dārčiní)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਲ਼ਚੀਨੀ (dāḷcīnī)

  Shahmukhi script: دالچینی (dālcīnī)

• → Tatar: дарчин (darçin)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971), “դարիճենիկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 638b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897), Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 137