وجدان

See also: وحدان

Arabic

Root
و ج د (w-j-d)

Etymology

From the verb وَجَدَ (wajada), to experience.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wid͡ʒ.daːn/

Noun

وِجْدَان • (wijdān) m

1. passionate excitement, ecstasy
2. emotional life, psychic forces
3. feeling, emotion, sentiment, consciousness, compassion, affection
4. conscience, soul, volition

Declension

Declension of noun وِجْدَان (wijdān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	وِجْدَان wijdān	الْوِجْدَان al-wijdān	وِجْدَان wijdān
Nominative	وِجْدَانٌ wijdānun	الْوِجْدَانُ al-wijdānu	وِجْدَانُ wijdānu
Accusative	وِجْدَانًا wijdānan	الْوِجْدَانَ al-wijdāna	وِجْدَانَ wijdāna
Genitive	وِجْدَانٍ wijdānin	الْوِجْدَانِ al-wijdāni	وِجْدَانِ wijdāni

Related terms

• وجداني

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: vicdan
• → Bashkir: выждан (vıjdan)
• → Crimean Tatar: vicdan
• → Karakalpak: hújdan
• → Kazakh: ождан (ojdan)
• → Nogai: виcдан (vicdan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: وجدان (vicdan)
  • Turkish: vicdan
  • → Armenian: վիժտան (vižtan)
• → Pashto: وجدان
• → Persian: وجدان (vojdân, vejdân)
• → Tajik: виҷдон (vijdon)
• → Talysh: vicdon
• → Tatar: вөҗдан (wöcdan)
• → Turkmen: wyždan
• → Uyghur: ۋىجدان (wijdan)
• → Uzbek: vijdon
• → Zazaki: wijdan

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وِجْدَان (wijdān, “ecstasy; conscience”).

Noun

وجدان • (vicdan)

1. ecstasy, rapture, an intense pleasure or state of emotion

   Synonym: وجد (vecd)

2. conscience, the ethical or moral sense of right and wrong

   Synonym: ضمیر (zamir)

Derived terms

• وجدانسز (vicdansız, “conscienceless”)
• وجدانلی (vicdanlı, “conscientious”)
• وجدانی (vicdanî, “pertaining to conscience”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: vicdan
• → Armenian: վիժտան (vižtan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vicdan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5123
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “vicdân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1383
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وجدان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وجدان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5339
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vicdan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وجدان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2128

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic وِجْدَان (wijdān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [wud͡ʒ.ˈdɑːn], [wid͡ʒ.ˈdɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wʊd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn], [wɪd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wʊd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn], [wɪd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wʊd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn], [wɪd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wud͡ʒ.d̪ɔ́ːn], [wid͡ʒ.d̪ɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [vod͡ʒ.d̪ɒ́ːn], [ved͡ʒ.d̪ɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [vud͡ʒ.d̪ɔ́n], [vid͡ʒ.d̪ɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	wujdān, wijdān
Dari reading?	wujdān, wijdān
Iranian reading?	vojdân, vejdân
Tajik reading?	vujdon, vijdon

Noun

Dari	وجدان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	виҷдон, вуҷдон

وجدان • (vojdân, vejdân)

1. conscience

Derived terms

• وجدانی (vojdâni, vejdâni)