زین

See also: رين, زين, رین, and ر ي ن

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (zyn' /⁠zēn⁠/, “saddle”), originally meaning something to make ready or fitted, armament, harness, Old Armenian զէն (zēn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ziːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ziːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ziːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ziːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ziːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zin]

Readings
Classical reading?	zīn
Dari reading?	zīn
Iranian reading?	zin
Tajik reading?	zin

Noun

Dari	زین
Iranian Persian
Tajik	зин

زین • (zin)

1. saddle

Descendants

• → Assamese: জিন (zin)
• → Middle Bengali: জীন (jin)
  • Bengali: জিন (jin)
• → Gujarati: જીન (jīn)
• → Old Hindi: जीन (jīna)
  • Hindustani: zīn

    Hindi: ज़ीन

    Urdu: زِین (zīn)

• → Indonesian: jin
• → Kannada: ಜೀನು (jīnu)
• → Maithili: jīn

  Devanagari script: जीन

  Tirhuta script: 𑒖𑒲𑒢

• → Malayalam: ജീനി (jīni)
• → Marathi: जीन (jīn)
• → Marwari:

  Devanagari script: जीण (jīṇ)

  Mahajani script: 𑅛𑅑𑅢 (jiṇ)

• → Odia: ଜିନ (jina)
• → Old Punjabi: ਜੀਨੁ (jīnu)
  • Punjabi: zīn

    Gurmukhi script: ਜ਼ੀਨ

    Shahmukhi script: زِین

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: زيِنَ

  Devanagari script: ज़ीन

  Khudawadi script: 𑋂𑋩𑋢𑋑 (zīna)

• → Tamil: சேணம் (cēṇam)

References

• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “²zēn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 99
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “زین”, 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 II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 172