ریحان

See also: ريحان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil”).

Noun

ریحان • (reyhan) (definite accusative ریحانی (reyhanı), plural ریاحین (reyâhin))

1. (botany) herb, any plant whose leaves are used to flavour or season food

   Synonym: اسپرغم (ispergam)

2. basil, sweet basil, any culinary herb of the species Ocimum basilicum

   Synonyms: اسپرغم (ispergam), فسلكن (fesleğen)

Derived terms

• ریحانلو (reyhanlı, “Reyhanlı, a district of Turkey”)
• ریحانه (reyhane, “Reyhane, a name for women”)
• ریحانی (reyhanî, “pertaining to herbs”)

Descendants

• Turkish: reyhan

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “reyhan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3964
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “ریحان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 253a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ریحان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 635
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Ocimum”, 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 1189
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ریحان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2405
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “reyhan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ریحان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 998

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /raj.ˈhaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [räj.hɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [räj.hɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rä.jɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rä.jɔːn]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹej.hɒːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹej.hɒːn]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [ɹej.huːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾäj.hɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	rayhān
Dari reading?	rayhān
Iranian reading?	reyhân
Tajik reading?	rayhon

Noun

ریحان • (rayhān / reyhân) (Tajik spelling райҳон)

1. basil
2. fragrant plant

Turkmen

Noun

ریحان (reýhan)

1. Arabic spelling of reýhan