زبان

See also: زَبان‎

Baluchi

Noun

زبان • (zabán)

1. tongue
2. language

See also

• زوان‎ (zawán)

Persian

Alternative forms

• زفان‎ (zofân, zafân), زوان‎ (zovân, zavân), زوون‎ (zoun, zowun), زبون‎ (zabun)

Etymology

From Late Middle Persian زڤان (zaβān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ŠNA) / [script needed] (ʾwzwʾn' /uzwān/) (Middle Persian 𐫙𐫉𐫇𐫀𐫗‎ (ʿzwʾn /izwān/)), from Proto-Iranian *hižwáH (compare Northern Kurdish ziman, Pashto ژبه‎ (žəba), Avestan 𐬵𐬍𐬰𐬎𐬎𐬁‎ (hīzuuā)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáH (compare Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā), Urdu جِیبھ‎ (jībh) / Hindi जीभ (jībh)), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (compare Old Prussian insuwis, Russian язы́к (jazýk), French langue, English tongue).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /zaˈbɑːn/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /zaˈbɑːn/, /zʊˈbɑːn/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /zæˈbɒːn/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /zaˈbɔn/

• (Hamadan) IPA^(key): [zeˈbɒːn]

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Noun

Dari	زبان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	забон (zabon)

زبان • (zabân, zobân) (plural زبان‌ها‎ (zabân-hâ))

1. tongue (body part)
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 269:

     ‏بر زبان نام حق و در جان او / گندها از فکر بی‌ایمان او‎

     bar zabân nâm-e haqq o dar jân-e u / gand-hâ az fekr-e bi-imân-e u

     On his tongue the name of God, and in his soul stenches from his infidel thought.

2. language

   ‏در زبان اردو، این کلمه به معنی « بزرگ » است.‎‎

   dar zabân-e ordu, in kalame be ma'ni-ye "bozorg" ast.

   In the Urdu language, this word means "big".

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 1206:

     ‏ای بسا هندو و ترک هم زبان / ای بسا دو ترک چون بیگانگان‌‎

     ey basâ hendu o tork-e ham zabân / ey basâ do tork čon bigânegân

     Oh, many are the Indians and Turks that speak the same tongue; oh, many the pair of Turks that are as strangers [to each other].

   • c. 1650, Čandra Bhān, دیوان برهمن [The Brahman's divan]:

     ‏برهمن از لب هندی نژادان نکته می‌سنجد / زبان پارسی و ترکی و تازی نمی‌داند.‎‎

     barahman az lab-e hendi nežâdân nokte mi-sanjad / zabân-e pârsi va torki va tâzi ne-mi-dânad.

     [This] brahman weighs his subtle wits with lips of Hindi lineage; he knows not the Persian nor the Turkish nor the Arabic tongues.

   • c. 1655, دبستان مذاهب [Dabistān-i Mazāhib]:

     ‏و یزدان بهر آباد نامه‌ای فرستاد دساتیر نام که در او هر دانش و همه زبان بود.‎‎

     va yazdân bahr-e âbâd nâme-ye ferestâd dasâtir-e nâm ke dar u har dâneš va hame zabân bud.

     And God sent for Ābād's sake a book, Dasātir by name, within which there is all knowledge and every language.

Derived terms

• زبان اشاره‎ (zabân-e ešâre)
• زبان مادری‎ (zabân-e mâdari)
• زبانی‎ (zabâni)
• زبان‌شناسی‎ (zabân-šenâsi)
• زبان‌شناس‎ (zabân-šenâs)

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: জবান (zôban)
  • → Rohingya: zuban / 𐴎𐴟𐴁𐴝𐴕‎ (zuban)
• → Hindustani: zabān

  Hindi: ज़बान

  Urdu: زبان‎

  • → Phalura: zabaán

• → Kashmiri: زَبان‎ (zabān)
• → Punjabi: ਜ਼ਬਾਨ (zabān)
• → Uzbek: zabon

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “uzwān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian زبان‎ (zubān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /zʊ.bɑːn/, /zə.bɑːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

زُبان or زَبان • (zubān or transliteration needed) f

1. tongue (body part)

   Synonyms: جیبھ‎ (jībh), لسان‎ (lisān)

2. language

   Synonyms: لسان‎ (lisān), بھاشا‎ (bhāśā), بولی‎ (bolī)

Declension

Declension of زبان
	singular	plural
direct	زبان‎ (zubān)	زبانیں‎ (zubānẽ)
oblique	زبان‎ (zubān)	زبانوں‎ (zubānõ)
vocative	زبان‎ (zubān)	زبانو‎ (zubāno)

Derived terms

• مادری زبان‎ (mādrī zubān, “mother tongue, native language”)
• اشاروں کی زبان‎ (iśārõ ki zubān, “sign language”)

Yemeni Arabic

Etymology

Cognate to Egyptian Arabic زَمُكَّة‎ (zamukka), زَلَمُكَّة‎ (zalamukka, “fundament of a fowl”), Moroccan Arabic زك‎ (zukk, “arse”), Ge'ez ዘባን (zäban, “back”), Tigre and Tigrinya ዝባን (zəban, “back”).

Noun

زَبَان (zabān)

1. bum, fundament, abdomen
2. loins, hips

References

• Landberg, Carlo, editor (1942) Glossaire daṯînois‎^[1] (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 1821
• Piamenta, Moshe (1991) Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 196b