دیو

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian Persian دیو (div).

Noun

دیو (div)

  1. demon
  2. giant

Descendants

  • Turkish: dev, div
  • Serbo-Croatian: div / див

Persian

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Dari دیو
Iranian Persian
Tajik дев
رستم دیو را می کشد
rostam div râ mi-košad
Rustam slays a demon

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian (ŠDYA /⁠dēw⁠/, evil spirit, forces of the Evil One), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (daiva-), from Proto-Iranian *daywáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? dēw
Dari reading? dēw
Iranian reading? div
Tajik reading? dev

Noun

دیو (div) (plural دیوان (divân) or دیوها (div-hâ))

  1. demon, devil, goblin; evil supernatural creature
    • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The tale of the Akwān Dēw”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎:
      تو مر دیو را مردم بد شناس
      کسی کو ندارد ز یزدان سپاس
      هرانکو گذشت از ره مردمی
      ز دیوان شمر مشمر از آدمی
      tu mar dēw rā mardum-i bad šinās
      kasē k-ō na-dārad zi yazdān sipās
      har ān k-ō guḏašt az rah-i mardumī
      zi dēwān šumar mašumar az ādamī
      Consider the demon to be a bad person.
      Whoever does not have gratitude towards God
      And whoever leaves the proper path of humanity:
      Count him as among the demons, do not consider him a human.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
    1. (Islam) wicked jinn; sometimes contrasted with پری (pari, fairy, good jinn).
    2. (Zoroastrianism) daeva, a spirit of evil

Derived terms

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian دیو (dēw).

Noun

دیو (dēo, devm (Hindi spelling देव)

  1. demon
  2. devil

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit देव (deva).

Noun

دیو (devm (Hindi spelling देव)

  1. deva
  2. deity
  3. god
  4. celestial being