روشن

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Libyan Arabic

Etymology

From Persian روزن (rowzan), روزنه (rowzane).

Pronunciation

Noun

روشن (rōšan) m (plural رواشن (rwāšin))

  1. window

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian lwšn' (rōšn, “light; bright, light”), from Old Persian *rauxšnā, from Proto-Iranian *ráwxšnaH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ráwkšnaH, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂ (“moon”). Doublet of رخشان (raxšân, “bright”) and لوخن (loxan, “moon, moonlight”).

Cognates include Latin lūna, Armenian լուսին (lusin), Old Church Slavonic лоуна (luna).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? rawšan, rōšan
Dari reading? rawšan, rōšan
Iranian reading? rowšan
Tajik reading? ravšan, rüšan
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Adjective

Dari روشن
Iranian Persian
Tajik равшан, рӯшан

روشن • (rowšan) (comparative روشن‌تَر (rowšan-tar), superlative روشن‌تَرین (rowšan-tarin))

  1. bright, clear
  2. light
  3. luminous
  4. transparent
  5. lighted, lit
  6. on
  7. clear, conspicuous
  8. sure, certain

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Bengali: রওশন (roōśon)
  • → Gujarati: રોશન (rośan)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: रौशन (rauśan)
    Urdu: روشن (rauśan, rośan)
  • → Middle Armenian: ռօշան (ṙōšan)
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਰੋਸ਼ਨ (rośan)
    Shahmukhi script: روشن (rauśan, rośan)

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “rōšn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 72.
  • Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 420
  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “روشن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian روشن (rawšan).

Pronunciation

Adjective

رَوشَن or روشَن • (rauśan or rośan) (Hindi spelling रौशन or रोशन)

  1. bright, shining, luminous
  2. illuminated; lit, alight
  3. manifest, evident, clear
  4. splendid; good
  5. enlightened

Derived terms

References

  • “روشن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “روشن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “روشن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • “روشن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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