جهان

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Azerbaijani

Noun

جهان

  1. Arabic spelling of cəhan

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian جهان (jahân).

Noun

جهان (cihan)

  1. world
  2. universe

Descendants

  • Turkish: cihan

Proper noun

جهان (cihan)

  1. a male given name, Jahan

Descendants

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (gyhʾn' /⁠gēhān⁠/, worldly creatures, world),[1] from Proto-Iranian *gayθānām, the genitive plural form of Proto-Iranian *gay-θā- (living, existence) (compare Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬉𐬚𐬁- (gaēθā-, world; creature)),[2] equivalent to Middle Persian (gēh) +‎ (ān), with the former component from Proto-Iranian *ǰáyH- (to live), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰáyH- (to live), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (to live).[3]

The original meaning of the word in Old Iranian and Middle Persian was (worldly) creatures, but the term in late Middle Persian and in Modern Persian came to mean ‘world’ in general.

Doublet of کیهان (keyhân).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? jahān, jihān
Dari reading? jahān
Iranian reading? jahân
Tajik reading? jahon

Noun

Dari جهان
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҷаҳон

جهان (jahân) (plural جهان‌ها (jahân-hâ))

  1. world; universe
    Synonyms: دنیا (donyâ), گیتی (giti), عالم (âlam)
    جَهانِ آزادjahân-e âzâdthe free world
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants

Proper noun

جهان (jahân)

  1. a male or female given name, Jahan
Descendants

Etymology 2

From جه (jeh, present stem of جستن (jastan, to leap)) +‎ ـان (-ân).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? jihān
Dari reading? jehān
Iranian reading? jehân
Tajik reading? jihon

Adjective

جهان (jehân)

  1. leaping; bounding

References

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “gēhān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 36
  2. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 107-8
  3. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 222-3