ارزان
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See also: ارزاں
Baluchi
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ارزان • (arzán)
Khalaj
[edit]Adjective
[edit]اَرزان (arzân or ərzân)
Pashto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian اَرْزَان (arzān, “cheap”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ارزان • (arzān)
Declension
[edit]declension of ارزان
See also
[edit]- ارزانه (arzāna)
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlcʾn /arzān/), 𐫀𐫡𐫉𐫀𐫗 (ʾrzʾn /arzān/, “valuable, worthy”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlc /arz/, “worth, value”) + [Book Pahlavi needed] (-ʾn /-ān/), from Proto-Iranian *Hárǰ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hárǰʰ- (“to be worth”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫋𐫀𐫗 (ʾrjʾn /aržān/, “worthy”), Talysh ارژون (erjon), Northern Kurdish erzan and the following Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian արժան (aržan, “worthy; cheap”), Classical Syriac ܐܪܙܢ (ʾarzān, “cheap”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔaɾ.ˈzɑːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæɹ.zɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäɾ.zɔ́n]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | arzān |
Dari reading? | arzān |
Iranian reading? | arzân |
Tajik reading? | arzon |
Adjective
[edit]Dari | ارزان |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | арзон |
ارزان • (arzân) (comparative ارزانتَر (arzân-tar), superlative ارزانتَرین (arzân-tarin))
- cheap, inexpensive
- Antonym: گران (gerân, “expensive”)
- c. 1260, Rumi, “3:1001”, in The Masnavi:
- خویشتن را آدمی ارزان فروخت، بود اطلس خویش بر دلقی بدوخت
- xwēštan-rā ādamē arzân furōxt, būd atlas xwēš bar dalqē bidōxt
- man sold himself for cheap; he was satin, but sewed himself to a dervish's rags.
Derived terms
[edit]- ارزانی (arzâni)
- ارزانفروش (arzân-foruš)
- حاجیارزونی (hâji-'arzuni)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Baluchi: ارزان (arzán)
- → Bashkir: арзан (arzan)
- → Kazakh: арзан (arzan)
- → Khalaj: arzân
- → Kyrgyz: арзан (arzan)
- → Pashto: ارزان (arzân)
- → Tatar: арзан (arzan)
- → Turkmen: arzan
- → Urdu: ارزاں (arzān)
- → Ushojo: ارزان (arzān)
- → Uyghur: ئەرزان (erzan)
- → Uzbek: arzon
Further reading
[edit]- Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, pages 52, 53
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “arzān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 296
- Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 166-167
Ushojo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]اَرزان (arzān)
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