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Arabic
Verb
اُنْجُمْنَ • (unjumna) (form I)
- second-person feminine plural active imperative of نَجَمَ (najama)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian انجمن (anjoman, “meeting, assembly”), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭭𐭰𐭬𐭭 (hanjaman, “congregation, assembly, community”), itself from Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀 (haṇjamana, “assembly”).
Noun
انجمن • (encümen) (definite accusative انجمنی (encümeni), plural انجمنلر (encümenler))
- society, association, club, a group of people who meet to engage in a common interest
- Synonym: جمعیت (cemʼiyet)
- convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose
- Synonyms: اجتماع (ictimaʼ), جمعیت (cemʼiyet), درنك (dernek), مجلس (meclis)
- commission, committee, a group of people convened for the accomplishment of a specific task
Derived terms
- انجمن دانش (encümen-i daniş, “Academy of Sciences”)
- انجمنكاه (encümengâh, “place of assembly”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “encümen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1442
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “encümen”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 264
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انجمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Collegium”, 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, Vienna, column 201
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انجمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 446
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “encümen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انجمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 213
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭭𐭰𐭬𐭭 (hanjaman, “congregation, assembly, community”), from Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀 (haṇjamana, “assembly”).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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(')anjuman
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| Dari reading?
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(')anjuman
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| Iranian reading?
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(')anjoman
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| Tajik reading?
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(ʾ)anjuman
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Noun
اَنْجُمَن • (anjoman) (plural انجمن‌ها (anjoman-hâ))
- meeting, assembly, consultation, forum, association
- (archaic, chiefly obsolete) society
- (Internet) forum
Inflection
| Enclitic-attached forms of انجمن (anjoman) (Iranian Persian)
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| Basic forms of انجمن (anjoman)
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singular
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plural
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| bare
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انجمن
(anjoman)
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انجمن‌ها
(anjoman-hấ)
انجمنا △
(anjomanấ)
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| definitive direct object
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انجمن را
(anjoman râ)
انجمن رو △
(anjomano)
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انجمن‌ها را
(anjoman-hấ râ)
انجمنا رو △
(anjomanấ ro)
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| ezâfe
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انجمن
(anjoman-e)
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انجمن‌های
(anjoman-hấ-ye)
انجمنای △
(anjomanấ-ye)
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marked indefinite
or relative definite
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انجمنی
(anjoman-i)
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انجمن‌هایی
(anjomanấn-i, anjoman-hấ-i)
انجمنایی △
(anjomanấi)
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| △ Colloquial.
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Synonyms
Descendants