زردخان

Arabic

Alternative forms

• زَرْدَخَانَة (zardaḵāna), زَرْدَخَانِيّ (zardaḵāniyy)

Etymology

Via Persian, and the etymology of the city name А́страхань (Ástraxanʹ) it relates to is itself highly disputed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zar.da.xaːn/

Noun

زَرْدَخَان • (zardaḵān) m

1. (historical) a kind of fabric, astrakhan
   • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎^[1], volume 3, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1855, page 423 line 6:
   • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎^[2], volume 4, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, page 404 line 6:
   • 2013, بكاي عبد المالك, “الأسرة الريفية في المغرب الأوسط من القرن 7-10هـ /13-16م”, in مجلة الآداب و العلوم الإجتماعية‎^[3], volume 10, number 10, page 72 line 6:

Descendants

• → Spanish: zarzahán, zargagan, çarçaan, zarzagán, çarçanan, zarçaan, zarzahan (XV–XVI^th century)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زردخان”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[4] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 585
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎^[5] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, page 369
• Stala, Ewa (1999) “Arabisms in the Spanish Inventory of Moorish goods in the Kingdom of Granada”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia‎^[6], volume 4, page 154