zindan

Borrowed from Russian зинда́н (zindán), from Classical Persian زِنْدَان (zindān).

zindan (plural zindans)

1. (Russia) an improvised prison cell consisting of a hole in the ground covered with a metal grille or grate.
   • 2009 February 3, Arkady Babchenko, One Soldier's War, Grove Press, →ISBN:

     They should have brought a few journalists into the mountains or to us in Argun when Lisitsyn shot the soldier on the rack—that would be a hoot. Then they would know what real torture is. But with them it’s all zindan this and zindan that. I think they just like the word.

Borrowed from Classical Persian زِنْدَان (zindān).

zindan (definite accusative zindanı, plural zindanlar)

1. dungeon, prison

   Synonyms: həbsxana, dustaqxana, türmə, qazamat, həbs, (slang) içəri

Borrowed from Classical Persian سِنْدَان (sindān). For the initial voicing of /s/, see Azerbaijani zəngin.

zindan (definite accusative zindanı, plural zindanlar)

1. anvil (block used in blacksmithing)

   çəkiclə zindan arasında ― between the hammer and the anvil

Borrowed from Classical Persian زِنْدَان (zindān).

zindan

1. dungeon

   Synonym: mabushane

• “zindan”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish زندان (zından, zindan), from Classical Persian زِنْدَان (zindān).

• Hyphenation: zin‧dan

zindan (definite accusative zindanı, plural zindanlar)

1. dungeon

• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “zindan”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı