زیتون
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زیتونلر
See also: زيتون
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- زیتین (zeytin)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “olive”).
Noun
زیتون • (zeytun, zeytin)
- olive, the small oval fruit of the olive tree
Derived terms
- زیتون آغاجی (zeytun ağacı, “olive tree”)
- زیتونجی (zeytinci, “grower or seller of olives”)
- زیتونلق (zeytunluk, “olive grove”)
- زیتونی (zeytuni, “olive-green”)
Related terms
Descendants
- Turkish: zeytin
- → Bulgarian: зехти́н (zehtín, “olive oil”)
- → Macedonian: зејтин (zejtin, “cooking oil”)
- → Serbo-Croatian: зѐјтӣн / zèjtīn (“cooking oil”)
- → Ubykh: зеиҭын (zejtən)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zeytin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5465
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “زیتون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 260b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زیتون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 653
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Olea”, 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 1199
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زیتون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2497
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zeytin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زیتون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1022
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | zaytūn |
| Dari reading? | zaytūn |
| Iranian reading? | zeytun |
| Tajik reading? | zaytun |
Noun
| Dari | زیتون |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | зайтун |
زیتون • (zeytun)
Derived terms
- زیتونی (zeytuni)
Related terms
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn) (through Classical Persian زیتون (zaytūn)).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /zɛː.t̪uːn/
- Rhymes: -uːn
- Hyphenation: زَے‧تُون
Noun
زَیتُون • (zaitūn) m (Hindi spelling ज़ैतून)
Declension
| Declension of زیتون | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | زیتون (zaitūn) | زیتون (zaitūn) | ||||||
| oblique | زیتون (zaitūn) | زیتونوں (zaitūnõ) | ||||||
| vocative | زیتون (zaitūn) | زیتونو (zaitūno) | ||||||
References
- “زیتون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “زیتون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “زیتون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.