جلاد

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Arabic

Etymology

Occupational noun from the root ج ل د (j-l-d).

Pronunciation

Noun

جَلَّاد (jallādm (plural جَلَّادُون (jallādūn))

  1. whipper, lasher
  2. executioner, headsman, torturer
  3. a person who treats others harshly
  4. leather merchant, skinner

Declension

Descendants

Ottoman Turkish

جلاد

Etymology

From Arabic جَلَّاد (jallād).

Pronunciation

Noun

جلاد (cellat)

  1. executioner, headsman

Descendants

References

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “783. GILÁT”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 131

Persian

جلاد

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَلَّاد (jallād).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? jallāḏ
Dari reading? jallād
Iranian reading? jallâd
Tajik reading? jallod

Noun

جلاد (jallâd) (plural جلادان (jallâdân))

  1. executioner, headsman
    Synonym: دژخیم (dežxim)
  2. (figurative) a merciless person, a violent person