بوزیدان

See also: بوزيدان

Persian

Etymology

Apparently a Middle Persian genitive (ezafe) construction of (bawz), (biz, “bee”), alternatively (bōz), (bōza), (pōz), (pōza, “snout, beak”), +‎ (-ī) +‎ (-dān), if one assumes not the rare Pseudohandelia to constitute the original meaning, only later falsified with more easily obtainable herbs, since Pseudohandelia exposes umbels attractive to bees rather than calyces likenable to snouts.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.ðɑːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.d̪ɑːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.d̪ɑːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bu.zi.d̪ɔːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.d̪ɒːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bu.zi.d̪ɔn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	būzīḏān
Dari reading^?	būzīdān
Iranian reading^?	buzidân
Tajik reading^?	buzidon

Noun

بوزیدان • (buzidân)

sweet pellitory (Pseudohandelia umbellifera, once Pyrethrum umbelliferum, Tanacetum umbelliferum)
(as a replacement) ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)
(as a replacement) green-winged orchid or green-veined orchid (Anacamptis morio, syn. Orchis morio)

Descendants

→ Arabic: بُوزِيدَان (būzīdān), بُوزِيذَان (būzīḏān)
→ Middle Armenian: բուզիտան (buzitan), բուզիդան (buzidan)
→ Ottoman Turkish: بوزیدان (buzidan)
→ Urdu: بوزیدان (būzīdān)

References

Hartwich, Carl (1897) “Tanacetum”, in Die neuen Arzneidrogen aus dem Pflanzenreiche (in German), Berlin: Julius Springer, →DOI, page 331
Seidel, Ernst (1908) Mechithar’s, des Meisterarztes aus Her, ‘Trost bei Fiebern’: nach dem Venediger Druck vom Jahre 1832 zum ersten Male aus dem Mittelarmenischen übersetzt und erläutert (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, page 263 Nr. 386
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بوزيدان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 206
Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بوزیدان”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 276b