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Baluchi
Adjective
ارزان • (arzán)
- cheap
- inexpensive
Khalaj
Adjective
اَرزان (arzân or ərzân)
- Arabic spelling of arzân, ərzân (“cheap”)
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اَرْزَان (arzān, “cheap”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ارزان • (arzān)
- cheap
Declension
See also
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (ʾlcʾn /arzān/), 𐫀𐫡𐫉𐫀𐫗 (ʾrzʾn /arzān/, “valuable, worthy”), from (ʾlc /arz/, “worth, value”) + (-ʾn /-ān/), from Proto-Iranian *Hárǰ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hárǰʰ- (“to be worth”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫋𐫀𐫗 (ʾrjʾn /aržān/, “worthy”), Talysh ارژون (erjon), Northern Kurdish erzan and the following Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian արժան (aržan, “worthy; cheap”), Classical Syriac ܐܪܙܢ (ʾarzān, “cheap”).
Pronunciation
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arzān
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| Dari reading?
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arzān
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| Iranian reading?
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arzân
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| Tajik reading?
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arzon
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Adjective
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ارزان
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арзон
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ارزان • (arzân) (comparative ارزانتَر (arzân-tar), superlative ارزانتَرین (arzân-tarin))
- cheap, inexpensive
- Antonym: گران (gerân, “expensive”)
c. 1260, Rumi, “3:1001”, in The Masnavi:خویشتن را آدمی ارزان فروخت، بود اطلس خویش بر دلقی بدوخت- xwēštan-rā ādamē arzân furōxt, būd atlas xwēš bar dalqē bidōxt
- man sold himself for cheap; he was satin, but sewed himself to a dervish's rags.
Derived terms
- ارزیدن (arzidan, “to cost, to be worth”)
- ـان (-ân)
Descendants
Further reading
- Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, pages 52, 53
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “arzān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 296
- Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 166-167
Ushojo
Etymology
From Persian ارزان (arzân).
Noun
اَرزان (arzān)
- cheap