طربزون

Ottoman Turkish

Trabzon province

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τραπεζοῦντα (Trapezoûnta), accusative of Τραπεζοῦς (Trapezoûs).

Proper noun

طربزون • (Tırabızon)

1. Trabzon (a city and province in the East Black Sea region, Turkey)

Derived terms

• طربزون خرماسی (tırabızon hurması, “a kind of date plum, diospyros”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Trabzon
  • → English: Trabzon
  • → Russian: Трабзо́н (Trabzón)

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Trabzon”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طربزون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1234
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Trabzon”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 762

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طربزون (Tırabızon), from Ancient Greek Τραπεζοῦς (Trapezoûs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.ɾaβ.ˈzuːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾäb.zúːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾäb.zúːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾäb.zúːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾäb.zún]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.ɹæb.zúːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾäb.zún]

Readings
Classical reading?	taraḇzūn
Dari reading?	tarabzūn
Iranian reading?	tarabzun
Tajik reading?	tarabzun

Proper noun

طربزون • (tarabzun)

1. Obsolete form of ترابزون (terâbzun, “Trabzon, Trebizond (a city and province of Turkey)”).
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 264:

     هر گوشه بتی هر طرفی حور سرشتی
     از ماه و نشاطست طربزون چو بهشتی

     har gōša butē har tarafē hūr sirištē
     az māh u nišāt-ast tarabzūn čū bihištē

     An idol-like beauty in corner, a houri-natured beauty on every side;
     Trebizond is like a paradise from the moon [or moon-like beauty] and merry-making.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)