زندان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian زندان (zindân).

Noun

زندان • (zından, zindan)

1. jail, prison, dungeon

   Synonyms: حبس (haps, hapis), قفس (kafes)

Descendants

• Turkish: zindan
• → Albanian: zindan
• → Aromanian: zindane, zindáne, zundáne, zãndáne
• → Bulgarian: занда́н (zandán)
• → Macedonian: зандана (zandana)
• → Romanian: zandan, zandán
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: зѝнда̄н

  Latin script: zìndān

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (zyndʾn' /⁠zēndān⁠/, “prison”). Ultimate origin uncertain. Perhaps originally "arsenal, armoury", from [Book Pahlavi needed] (zyn' /⁠zēn⁠/, “weapon, armour”) and [script needed] (-dʾn' /⁠-dān⁠/, “holder, container”).

Compare Old Armenian զնդան (zndan), Classical Syriac ܙܢܕܢܝܩ (zendānīq), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• Template:fa-pronunciation

Noun

Dari	زندان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	зиндон

زندان • (zendân)

1. jail, prison

Related terms

• زندانی (zendâni)
• زندانبان (zendânbân)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: zindan
• → Middle Armenian: զնտան (zntan)
• → Northern Kurdish: zindan, zîndan
• → Ossetian: зындон (zyndon), зиндонӕ (zindonæ), дзиндонӕ (ʒindonæ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زندان (zından, zindan)
  • Turkish: zindan
  • → Albanian: zindan
  • → Aromanian: zindane, zindáne, zundáne, zãndáne
  • → Bulgarian: занда́н (zandán)
  • → Macedonian: зандана (zandana)
  • → Romanian: zandan, zandán
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зѝнда̄н

    Latin script: zìndān

• → Uyghur: زىندان (zindan)

Further reading

• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 151
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 671, page 149