تازیانه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• تارزنه (tarzene), تازانه (tazane)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تازیانه (tâziyâne, “whip”), from Middle Persian [script needed] (tʾcʾnk' /⁠tāzānag⁠/).

Noun

تازیانه • (taziyane) (definite accusative تازیانه‌یی (taziyaneyi), plural تازیانه‌لر (taziyaneler))

1. whip, lash, a pliant, flexible instrument used to direct and herd animals, or to strike a person as a punishment

   Synonyms: سوط (savt), قامچی (kamçı), قرباچ (kırbaç)

2. plectrum, a small piece of metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of an instrument, such as a lyre, guitar, etc.

   Synonym: مضراب (mızrab)

Descendants

• Turkish: taziyane, tarzene (obsolete), tezene (now standard)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: терзѝја̄н

  Latin script: terzìjān

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تازیانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 433
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tezene”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4793
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تازیانه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 145a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تازیانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 336
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Flagellum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 587
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تازیانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1039
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tezene”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تازیانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 477

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (tʾcʾnk' /⁠tāzānag⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tɑː.zi.jɑː.ˈna]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.zi.jɑː.nǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.zi.jɑː.nǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.zi.jɑː.nǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔː.zi.jɔː.nǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒː.zi.jɒː.né]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔ.zi.jɔ.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	tāziyāna
Dari reading?	tāziyāna
Iranian reading?	tâziyâne
Tajik reading?	toziyona

Noun

تازیانه • (tâziyâne) (plural تازیانه‌ها (tâziyâne-hâ))

1. whip

   Synonym: شلاق (šallâq)

   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎^[6]:

     همچنین تازیانه‌ای عظیم قیمتی در دست گرفته و در پیش او سیصد مرد دیلم می‌رفت همه پیاده و جامه‌های زربفت رومی پوشیده […]

     hamčunīn tāziyāna'ē azīm qīmatī dar dast girifta u dar pēš-i ō sēsad mard-i daylam mē-raft hama piyāda u jāma-hā-yi zarrbaft-i rūmī pōšīda […]

     He also held a grand and costly whip in his hand, and before him three hundred men from Daylam were marching, all infantrymen, wearing Byzantine gold-spun robes […]

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: taziyanə, tazyana
• → Northern Kurdish: taziyane
• → Ottoman Turkish: تازیانه (taziyane), تارزنه (tarzene), تازانه (tazane)
  • Turkish: taziyane, tarzene (obsolete), tezene (now standard)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: терзѝја̄н

    Latin script: terzìjān

• → Pashto: تازيانه (tāzyāna)