جوشن

• جَوْش (jawš)

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaw.ʃan/

جَوْشَن • (jawšan) m (plural جَوَاشِن (jawāšin))

1. armour, chain mail
   • (Can we date this quote?), عباس القمي, quoting Archangel Gabriel, مفاتيح الجنان [Keys of Heavens]‎:

     ...فَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّد، رَبُّكَ يُقْرِئُكَ السَّلَامَ، وَيَقُولُ لَكَ: اِخْلَعْ هٰذَا الْجَوْشَنَ، وَاقْرَأْ هٰذَا الدُّعَاءَ، فَهُوَ أَمَانٌ لَكَ وِلِأُمَّتِك

     ...faqāla: yā muḥammad, rabbuka yuqriʔuka s-salāma, wayaqūlu laka: iḵlaʕ hāḏā al-jawšana, wāqraʔ hāḏā d-duʕāʔa, fahuwa ʔamānun laka wiliʔummatik

     ...Then he (Angel Gabriel) said: O Muhammd, you God bestows his peace upon you, and says to you: take off this armour, and recite this supplication, for it is peace and protection for you and your nation

2. chest
3. the middle (e.g. of the night)

From Arabic جوشن.

جوشن • (jowšan)

1. cuirass; breastplate
   • c. 950, Abū‘l-Hasan Ali Munjīk, گنج سخن, 4th edition, volume 1, Tehran: Ibn-i Sīnā, published 1961, page 50:

     ما را جگر بتیر فراق تو خسته گشت
     ای صبر بر فراق بتان نیک جوشنی

     mā rā jigar ba tīr-i firāq-i tu xasta gašt
     ay sabr bar firāq-i butān nēk jawšan-ī

     My heart has been wounded by the arrow of separation from you;
     O patience! You are a fine breastplate against separation from beauties.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• → Georgian: ჯავშანი (ǯavšani)