جادو
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Arabic
Etymology
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Proper noun
جَادُو • (jādū) f
- A town in north-western Libya
Baluchi
Noun
جادو • (jádú)
See also
Old Anatolian Turkish
Alternative forms
- جاذو (cazu)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).
Noun
جادو (cadu)
Descendants
Further reading
- Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 51
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish جادو (cadu), from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).
Noun
جادو • (cadu, cadı)
- magician, sorcerer / sorceress
- phantom; vampire, ghoul etc.
- (figurative) cantankerous woman, harridan
Descendants
- Turkish: cadı
- → Armenian: ջազի (ǰazi)
- → Bulgarian: джади́я (džadíja), джиди́я (džidíja)
- → Laz: ჯაზი (cazi), ჯადი (cadi) — Lome
- → Macedonian: џадија (džadija)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جادو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 516a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جادی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 429a
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (yʾtwk' /ǰādūg/, “wizardry; wizard”), from Old Persian (y-a-tu-u /yātu/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yaHtúš. Compare Sanskrit यातु (yātu).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | jāḏū |
| Dari reading? | jādū |
| Iranian reading? | jâdu |
| Tajik reading? | jodu |
Noun
| Dari | جادو |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | ҷоду |
جادو • (jâdu)
- magic, charm, enchantment, conjuration
- (archaic) wizard, conjurer, sorcerer, witch
- c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The reign of Gushtāsp”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]:
- یکی جادو آمد به دین آوری
به ایران به دعوی پیغمبری
همی گوید از آسمان آمدم
ز نزد خدای جهان آمدم- yakē jādū āmad ba dīn āwarī
ba ērān ba da'wā-yi payğambarī
hamē gōyad az āsmān āmadam
zi nazd-i xudā-yi jahān āmadam - A sorcerer came to bring his religion
To Iran, claiming to be a prophet.
He would say, "I have come from the heavens,
I have come from the Lord of the world."
- yakē jādū āmad ba dīn āwarī
- (obsolete) juggling
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: ջադու (ǰadu)
- → Assamese: যাদু (zadu)
- → Baluchi: جادو
- → Bengali: জাদু (jadu)
- → Chagatai: جادو
- → Georgian: ჯადო (ǯado)
- → Hindustani:
- → English: jadoo
- → Punjabi: جادو (jādū)
- → Pashto: جادو (jādū)
- → Sindhi: جادو (jādū)
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: جادو (cadu), جاذو (cazu)
- → Turkmen: jady
- → Ushojo: جادُو (jādū)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɑː.d̪uː/
- Rhymes: -uː
Noun
جادو • (jādū) m (Hindi spelling जादू)
- magic
- enchantment, charm
- incantation
- Synonym: ٹونا (ṭonā)
Derived terms
- جادوگر (jādūgar, “magician, wizard, sorcerer”)
- جادوگری (jādūgarī, “wizardry, sorcery”)
- جادوئی (jāduī, “magical, enchanted”)
References
- Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.