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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian بادزن (bâdzan), variant of بادبزن (bâdbezan, “fan”).
Noun
بادزن • (badzen)
- fan, a hand-held device used to move air towards oneself in order to cool oneself
- Synonyms: مروح (mırvah), یلپازه (yelpaze)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “badzen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 423
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bâdzen”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 79
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Flabellum”, 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 586
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بادزن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 317