درمان

See also: دژمان

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian درمان (darmân, “remedy, cure”)

Noun

درمان • (dermān)

1. remedy, cure, a medicine or treatment that relieves a disease

   Synonyms: ام (em), دوا (devā), علاج (ʼilāc), چاره (çāre)

   Antonyms: سم (sem), اغو (aġu), زهر (zehr)

2. remedy, expedient, solution, something that corrects or counteracts

   Synonym: چاره (çāre)

3. strength, power, vigour, the quality of being strong

   Synonyms: كوچ (güç), ﻃﺎﻗﺖ (ṭāqet)

Derived terms

• درمان اولمق (dermān olmaq, “to heal”)
• درمان ایتمك (dermān ẹtmek, “to cure, to heal”)
• درمان ایلمك (dermān eylemek, “to cure, to heal”)
• درمان بولمق (dermān bulmaq, “to cure, to fix”)
• درمان قیلمق (dermān qılmaq, “to cure, to heal”)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: dərman
• Ottoman Turkish: درمان (derman)
  • Turkish: derman
  • → Albanian: derman
  • → Armenian: տէրման (tērman), դա̈րմա̈ն (därmän)
  • → Bulgarian: дерма́н (dermán)
  • → Macedonian: дерман (derman)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: dèrmān / дѐрма̄н

Further reading

• Çetin, Hasan Ali (2020), “dermān”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Eczacılık ve Tıp Terimleri Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Pharmacy and Medicine Dictionary] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 1365)‎^[1], 2025 edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, →ISBN, page 88
• Kanar, Mehmet (2018), “dermân”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 200

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish درمان (dermān), from Classical Persian درمان (darmān, “remedy, cure”).

Noun

درمان • (derman)

1. remedy, cure, a medicine or treatment that relieves a disease

   Synonyms: چاره (çare), دوا (deva), علاج (ʼilac)

2. remedy, expedient, solution, something that corrects or counteracts

   Synonym: چاره (çare)

   درده درمان بولمق ― derde derman bulmak ― to find a solution

3. strength, power, vigour, the quality of being strong

   Synonyms: گوچ (güç), ﻃﺎﻗﺖ (takat)

Derived terms

• درمان بولمق (derman bulmak, “to fix a problem, to cure”)
• درمانسز (dermansız, “irremediable”)

Descendants

• Turkish: derman
• → Albanian: derman
• → Armenian: տէրման (tērman), դա̈րմա̈ն (därmän)
• → Bulgarian: дерма́н (dermán)
• → Macedonian: дерман (derman)
• → Serbo-Croatian: dèrmān / дѐрма̄н

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “derman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1174
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “درمان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 222b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “درمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 569
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Remedium”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 1458
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “درمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 2062
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “derman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “درمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 897

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐫅𐫡𐫖𐫀𐫗 (drmʾn /⁠darmān⁠/, “remedy, medicine”), Northern Luri دںرمۆ (dərmø) from Proto-Indo-Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰér-mn̥. Compare Sanskrit धर्मन् (dharman, “support, supporter”), धर्म (dharma, “morality, virtue”), and the Iranian loanwords: Old Armenian դարման (darman), Classical Syriac ܕܪܡܢܐ (darmānā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /dar.ˈmaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.mɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.mɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æɹ.mɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.mɔ́n]

• Rhymes: -aːn

Readings
Classical reading?	darmān
Dari reading?	darmān
Iranian reading?	darmân
Tajik reading?	darmon

Noun

Dari	درمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дармон

درمان • (darmān / darmân) (Tajik spelling дармон)

1. remedy, cure

   Synonyms: معالجه (mo'âleje), پزشکی (pezeški)

   • c. 1320, Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, “Ghazal 3”, in دیوانِ امیرخسرو دهلوی [Divan of Amīr Khusraw]‎^[7]:

     مرا دردیست اندر دل که درمان نیستش یارا
     من و دردت چو تو درمان نمی‌خواهی دل ما را

     ma-rā dardē-st andar dil ki darmān nēst-aš yār-ā
     man u dard-at čū tu darmān na-mē-xwāhī dil-i mā rā

     I have a pain in my heart for which there is no cure, my love!
     Me and my love-pain for you, when you do not want to cure my heart.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. medicine

   Synonyms: دارو (dâru), قرص (qors)

Derived terms

• درمان کردن (darmân kardan)

Descendants

• → Bashkir: дарман (darman)
• → Chagatai: درمان (drmān /⁠därmān⁠/)
  • Uyghur: دەرمان (derman)
  • Uzbek: darmon
• → Georgian: დარმანი (darmani)
• → Kazakh: дәрмен (därmen)
• → Kyrgyz: дарман (darman)
• → Northern Luri: دںرمۆ (dərmø)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: درمان (dermān)
  • Azerbaijani: dərman
  • Ottoman Turkish: درمان (derman)
    • Turkish: derman
    • → Albanian: derman
    • → Armenian: տէրման (tērman), դա̈րմա̈ն (därmän)
    • → Bulgarian: дерма́н (dermán)
    • → Macedonian: дерман (derman)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: dèrmān / дѐрма̄н
• → Tatar: дәрман (därman)
• → Turkmen: derman