اسپندان

Persian

Alternative forms

سپندان (sepandân)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

(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)

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