زانو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian زانو (zânu, “knee”), from Proto-Iranian *jā́nu.

Noun

زانو • (zanu) (definite accusative زانویی (zanuyu), plural زانولر (zanular))

1. knee, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank

   Synonyms: دیز (diz), ركبه (rükbe)

Derived terms

• زانو بزانو (zanu-be-zanu, “knee-to-knee”)
• زانو بزمین (zanu-be-zemin, “bent on his knees”)
• زانو بند (zanu bend, “garter”)
• زانوزده (zanu-zede, “who has bent the knee in reverence”)
• زانوزن (zanu-zen, “who bends his knees in reverence”)
• سر بزانو (ser-be-zanu, “in thought or sorrow”, literally “whose head is on his knees”)

Descendants

• Turkish: zanu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “zanu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5434
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “zânû”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1404
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “زانو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 638
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Genu”, 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 646
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “زانو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 2419
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “زانو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1002

Persian

Alternative forms

• زانی (zani), زونی (zuni) (dialectal)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *jā́nu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́nu, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognate with Mazanderani زندی (zendi), Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu), Latin genū, English knee.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /zaː.ˈnuː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zɑː.núː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zɑː.núː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zɑː.núː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zɔː.nú]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zɒː.núː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zɔ.nú]

Readings
Classical reading?	zānū
Dari reading?	zānū
Iranian reading?	zânu
Tajik reading?	zonu

Noun

زانو • (zānū / zânu) (plural زانوها (zānū-hā / zânu-hâ), Tajik spelling зону)

1. (anatomy) knee

Further reading

• زانو on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa