دندان

Persian

Alternative forms

• دندون (dandun) (colloquial Tehrani)
• دند (dand) (clipped)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dntʾn'), 𐫅𐫗𐫅𐫀𐫗 (dndʾn /⁠dandān⁠/), from Old Persian *dantā, from Proto-Iranian *Hdántā (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hdántā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dént-ō ~ *h₃dn̥t-nés, from *h₃dent- (“tooth”) +‎ *-ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dan.dɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪än̪.d̪ɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪än̪.d̪ɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪än̪.d̪ɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪än̪.d̪ɔːn]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æn̪.d̪ɒːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æn̪.d̪ɒːn]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [d̪æn̪.d̪uːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪än̪.d̪ɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	dandān
Dari reading?	dandān
Iranian reading?	dandân
Tajik reading?	dandon

• (Hamdan) IPA^(key): /dendɒːn/

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	دندان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дандон

دندان • (dandân) (plural دندان‌ها (dandân-hâ))

1. tooth
2. purging croton (Croton tiglium)

Related terms

• دندانی (dandâni)
• دندان‌پزشک (dandân-pezešk)
• داکتر دندان (dāktar-i dandān)
• دندان‌پزشکی (dandân-pezeški)
  

Descendants

• → Bengali: দান্দান (dandan)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दन्दान (dandān)

  Urdu: دندان (dandān)

• → Old Armenian: դանդան (dandan)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دندان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “دندان”, 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, pages 909a–910a

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دندان (dandān). Doublet of دانت (dā̃t).

Noun

دندان • (dandān) m (Hindi spelling दन्दान)

1. tooth

Synonyms

• دانت (dā̃t)