آشنا

آشنا (âşnâ)

1. Arabic spelling of âşnâ (“familiar”)

From Middle Persian (ʾšnwʾk' /⁠āšnāg⁠/, “known”), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Note also Old Persian (ašnaiy, “near”). Possibly akin to Old Armenian Աշնակ (Ašnak, a male given name). Related to شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know, to be acquainted with”).

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آشنا • (âšnâ)

1. acquainted
2. familiar, accustomed

آشنا • (âšnâ or âšenâ) (plural آشنایان (âšnâyân) or آشناها (âšnâ-hâ))

1. acquaintance, friend
   • late 14th century, Xāja Shams-ud-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, “زاهد خلوت‌نشین دوش به میخانه شد”, in دیوان حافظ:

     مغبچه‌ای می‌گذشت راهزن دین و دل، در پی آن آشنا از همه بیگانه شد.

     moğ-bačče-ye mi-gozašt râhzan-e din o del, dar pey-e ân âšnâ az hame bigâne šod.

     A Magian child was passing by, bandit of faith and hearts; to follow that friendly one, he stopped knowing anyone else.

• → Azerbaijani: aşna
• → Bashkir: әшнә (əşnə)
• → Gujarati: આશના (āśanā)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: आशना (āśnā)

  Urdu: آشْنا (āśnā)

• → Khalaj: âşnâ
• → Tatar: әшнә (äşnä)

• Herzenberg, L. G. (2014) “Studies in Persian Etymology II”, in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana‎, volume 10, number 1, published by P. A. Kocharov and A. V. Shatskov, page 37 of 19–48
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 34(1), page 8
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “āšnāg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 13

Borrowed from Classical Persian آشنا (āšnā).

آشنا • (āšnā) m or f (Hindi spelling आशना)

1. acquaintance

اَشنا (ašnā)

1. familiar