زیان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian زیان (ziyân).

Noun

زیان • (ziyan)

1. hurt,, harm, injury, damage, loss, mischief

Descendants

• Turkish: ziyan
• → Armenian: զիյան (ziyan)
• → Bulgarian: зян (zjan)
• → Macedonian: зијан (zijan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: zìjān / зѝја̄н

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (zydʾn' /⁠zyān⁠/, “loss, harm, damage”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian. Cognate with Parthian 𐫉𐫏𐫀𐫗 (zyʾn /⁠zyān⁠/, “loss, harm, damage, destruction”), Avestan 𐬰𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬁 (ziiānā, “damage”), Sanskrit ज्यान (jyāna, “oppression”), as well as the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian զեան (zean), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic [script needed] (zīyanā), Classical Mandaic ࡆࡀࡉࡉࡍࡀ (zāyinā).

Noun

زیان • (ziyân)

1. damage, detriment, injury, loss

Synonyms

• ضرر (zarar)

Descendants

• → Northern Kurdish: zîyan
• → Pashto: زيان (zyā́n, ziyā́n)
• → Baluchi: زیان (zyan)
• → Ossetian: зиа́н (zián)
• → Azerbaijani: ziyan
• → Udi: зийан (zijan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زیان (ziyan)
  • Turkish: ziyan
  • → Armenian: զիյան (ziyan)
  • → Bulgarian: зян (zjan)
  • → Macedonian: зијан (zijan)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: zìjān / зѝја̄н
• → Georgian: ზიანი (ziani)
• → Bashkir: зыян (zıyan)
• → Kazakh: зиян (ziän)
• → Turkmen: zyýan
• → Uzbek: ziyon
• → Russian: изъя́н (izʺján) (via Turkic)
• → Uyghur: زىيان (ziyan)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “զեան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 89
• Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 440
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 150
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 150
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 602–603