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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian زیان (ziyân, “damage, injury, detriment”).
Noun
زیان • (ziyan)
- damage, injury, detriment, harm, the condition or measure of something not being intact
- Synonyms: ضرر (zarar), گزند (gezend), مضرت (mazarrat)
1917, Efrat-ı cedideye mahsus topçuluk dersleri:س – طوپ نه‌در؟
ج - اوزاقده بولنان دشمنه فضله زیان ویرمك و آنی بر آن اول محاربه‌یی تركه مجبور ایتدیرمك ایچون یاپلمش بر سلاحدر.- S – Top nedir?
C – Uzakda bulunan düşmana fazla ziyan vermek ve anı bir an evvel muharebeye Türk'e mecbur ettirmek için yapılmış bir silahdır. - (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- loss, the result of no longer possessing an object, function, or characteristic
- Synonyms: خسارت (hasaret), ضرر (zarar), غائب (gayıb)
Derived terms
- زیان ویرمك (ziyan virmek, “to cause injury”)
- زیان چكمك (ziyan çekmek, “to suffer loss”)
- زیانجی (ziyancı, “damager”)
- زیانسز (ziyansız, “harmless”)
- زیانكار (ziyankâr, “harmful, mischievous”)
- زیانلو (ziyanlı, “noxious, mischievous”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ziyan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5492
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ziyân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1432
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زیان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 652
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Damnum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 320
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زیان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2495
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ziyan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زیان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1021
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (zydʾn' /zyān/, “loss, harm, damage”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian. Cognate with Parthian 𐫉𐫏𐫀𐫗 (zyʾn /zyān/, “loss, harm, damage, destruction”), Avestan 𐬰𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬁 (ziiānā, “damage”), Sanskrit ज्यान (jyāna, “oppression”), as well as the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian զեան (zean), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (zīyanā), Classical Mandaic ࡆࡀࡉࡉࡍࡀ (zāyinā).
Pronunciation
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ziyān
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ziyān
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ziyân
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ziyon
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Noun
زیان • (ziyân)
- damage, detriment, injury, loss
- Synonym: ضرر (zarar)
- Antonyms: سود (sud), فایده (fâyede)
Descendants
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “զեան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 89
- Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 440
- Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 150
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 150
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 602–603
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian زیان (ziyān).
Noun
زِیان • (ziyān) ? (Hindi spelling ज़ियान)
- loss, damage, harm