زیتون

See also: زيتون

Ottoman Turkish

زیتونلر

Alternative forms

• زیتین (zeytin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “olive”).

Noun

زیتون • (zeytun, zeytin)

1. olive, the small oval fruit of the olive tree

Derived terms

• زیتون آغاجی (zeytun ağacı, “olive tree”)
• زیتونجی (zeytinci, “grower or seller of olives”)
• زیتونلق (zeytunluk, “olive grove”)
• زیتونی (zeytuni, “olive-green”)

Related terms

• زیت (zeyt, “olive oil”)
• زیتار (zeytar, “lees or dregs of oil”)

Descendants

• Turkish: zeytin
• → Bulgarian: зехти́н (zehtín, “olive oil”)
• → Macedonian: зејтин (zejtin, “cooking oil”)
• → Serbo-Croatian: зѐјтӣн / zèjtīn (“cooking oil”)
  • → Romanian: zăitin — Banat
• → Ubykh: зеиҭын (zejtən)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “zeytin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5465
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “زیتون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 260b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “زیتون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 653
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Olea”, 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 1199
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “زیتون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2497
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “zeytin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “زیتون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1022

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /zaj.ˈtuːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zäj.t̪ʰúːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zäj.t̪ʰúːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zäj.t̪ʰúːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zäj.t̪ʰún]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zej.t̪ʰúːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zäj.t̪ʰún]

• Rhymes: -uːn

Readings
Classical reading?	zaytūn
Dari reading?	zaytūn
Iranian reading?	zeytun
Tajik reading?	zaytun

Noun

Dari	زیتون
Iranian Persian
Tajik	зайтун

زیتون • (zeytun)

1. olive

Derived terms

• زیتونی (zeytuni)

Related terms

• زیت (zeyt)
• زیتار (zeytâr)

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn) (through Classical Persian زیتون (zaytūn)).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /zɛː.t̪uːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn
• Hyphenation: زَے‧تُون

Noun

زَیتُون • (zaitūn) m (Hindi spelling ज़ैतून)

1. olive

Declension

Declension of زیتون

	singular	plural
direct	زیتون (zaitūn)	زیتون (zaitūn)
oblique	زیتون (zaitūn)	زیتونوں (zaitūnõ)
vocative	زیتون (zaitūn)	زیتونو (zaitūno)

References

• “زیتون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “زیتون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “زیتون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.