اسپندان

Persian

اسپندان – Sinapis alba

Alternative forms

• سپندان (sepandân)

Etymology

Containing the word for “white”, now سفید (safêd). Probably also confounded with اسپند (espand, “Syrian rue”) and containing دان (dân, “seed”). Forms auslauting in /ɾ/ are contaminated by کندر (kondor, “olibanum-tree; olibanum”)-

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔis.pan.dɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.pʰän̪.d̪ɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.pʰän̪.d̪ɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.pʰän̪.d̪ɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔis.pʰän̪.d̪ɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔes.pʰæn̪.d̪ɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔis.pʰän̪.d̪ɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	ispandān
Dari reading?	ispandān
Iranian reading?	espandân
Tajik reading?	ispandon

Noun

اسپندان • (espandân)

1. white mustard (Sinapis alba)

Descendants

• → Arabic: أَسْبَنْدَار (ʔasbandār), أَسْبَنْذَار (ʔasbanḏār), أَسْبِنْدَار (ʔasbindār), أَسْبِنْذَار (ʔasbinḏār), أَسْفِنْدار (ʔasfindār), أَسْفِنْذَار (ʔasfinḏār), أَسْفَنْد (ʔasfand) (obsolete, uncommon)
• → Urdu: اسپندان (ispandān)

References

• Flattery, David Stophlet, Schwartz, Martin (1989) Haoma and Harmaline. The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen “Soma” and its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle Eastern Folklore (Near Eastern Studies; 21), Berkeley · Los Angeles · London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 143