جشن

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See also: خشن, حسن, and ح س ن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian (yšn' /⁠jašn⁠/), from Old Persian (*yašna-), from Proto-Iranian *Hyajnáh (“worship, sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	jašn
Dari reading^?	jašn
Iranian reading^?	jašn
Tajik reading^?	jašn

Noun


Iranian Persian	جشن
Dari	جشن
Tajik	ҷашн

جَشْن • (jašn) (plural جشن‌ها (jašn-hâ))

celebration, festival, feast
― jašn-e nowruz ― Nowruz celebrations

― jašn-e tavallod ― birthday celebrations

― jašni barpâ bud. ― A festival was underway.
- c. 1030, Farrukhī Sīstānī, “ترجیعات”, in دیوان اشعار [Diwān-i Ašʿār]:
  بدین شایستگی جشنی بدین بایستگی روزی
  ملک را در جهان هر روز جشنی باد و نوروزی
  bedin šâyestegi jašni bedin bâyestegi ruzi
  malek râ dar jahân har ruz jašni bâd o nowruzi
  A feast of such worth, a day of such need; may every day be a feast and a Nowruz to the king in the world!

Derived terms

جشن گرفتن (jašn gereftan)

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: जशन (jaśan)

Urdu: جَشْن (jaśn)
→ Pashto: جشن (jašᶕn)

References

^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 122

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian (jašn), from Middle Persian (yšn' /⁠jašn⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Hyajnáh (“worship, sacrifice”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ- (“to sacrifice, to worship”).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəʃ.(ə)n/

Noun

جَشْن • (jaśn) m (Hindi spelling जशन)

Derived terms

جشن عید (jaśan-e-'īd, “Eid celebrations”)
جشن عظیم (jaśan-e-'azīm, “great celebration”)
جشن فتح (jaśan-e-fatah, “victory celebration”)
جَشْنِ سال گِرَہ (jaśan-e-sāl-girah, “birthday celebration”)
جَشْنِ بَہاراں (jaśan-e-bahārāñ, “spring celebration”)
جَشْنِ بُزُرْگ (jaśan-e-buzurg, “Persian new year”)
جَشْنِ نَوروز (jaśan-e-nōrōz, “Nowruz”)
جَشْنِ آزادی (jaśan-e-āzādī, “independence day”)
جَشْنی (jaśanī, “fond of feasting, luxurious, voluptuous”)

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