شاهین
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Persian شاهین (šâhin, “falcon”), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (*šāhēn, literally “majestic, kingly”).
Noun
[edit]شاهین • (şahin)
- peregrine falcon, a medium-sized falcon of the species Falco peregrinus
Derived terms
[edit]- ترازو شاهینی (terazi şahini, “tongue of a balance”)
- شاهینجی (şahinci, “falconer”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4414
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شاهین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 284a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 718
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Falco”, 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 546
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شاهین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2763
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şahin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1113
Persian
[edit]Dari | شاهین |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | шоҳин |
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Persian [script needed] (*šāhēn, literally “majestic, kingly”) and the given name [Inscriptional Pahlavi needed] (šāhēn).[1] By surface analysis, شاه (šâh) + ـین (-in).
Compare Middle Armenian շահէն (šahēn) and Old Armenian Շահէն (Šahēn).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʃɑː.ˈhiːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʃɒː.ɦíːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʃɔ.ɦín]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | šāhīn |
Dari reading? | šāhīn |
Iranian reading? | šâhin |
Tajik reading? | šohin |
Noun
[edit]Dari | شاهین |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | шоҳин |
شاهین • (šâhin) (plural شاهینها (šâhin-hâ))
- falcon, especially the Barbary falcon
- pointer of a scale
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: شَاهِين (šāhīn)
- → Bengali: শাহীন (śahin)
- → Gujarati: શાહીન (śāhīn)
- → Hindustani:
- → Middle Armenian: շահին (šahin)
- → Ottoman Turkish: شاهین (şâhîn)
- → Russian: шахин (šaxin)
Proper noun
[edit]Dari | شاهین |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | Шоҳин |
شاهین • (šâhin)
- a male given name, Shahin, Shaahin, or Shaheen, from Middle Persian.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Šāhēn”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[6] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 274
Categories:
- Ottoman Turkish terms borrowed from Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Middle Persian
- Ottoman Turkish lemmas
- Ottoman Turkish nouns
- ota:Falconids
- Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian
- Persian terms derived from Middle Persian
- Persian terms suffixed with ـین
- Persian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Persian lemmas
- Persian nouns
- Persian proper nouns
- Persian given names
- Persian male given names
- Persian male given names from Middle Persian
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