حیوان

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Chagatai

Etymology

From Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

حیوان (haywan)

  1. animal
    Synonym: جانور (canwar)

Descendants

  • Uyghur: ھايۋان (haywan)
  • Uzbek:
    Latin script: hayvon
    Cyrillic script: ҳайвон

Further reading

  • Schluessel, Eric (2018) “حیوان”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources, Michigan Publishing, page 247

Khalaj

Noun

حَیوان (həyvân) (definite accusative حَیوانؽ, plural حَیوانلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of həyvân (animal)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

حیوانات

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

حیوان (hayvan) (plural حیوانات (hayvanat))

  1. animal, any multicellular organism in the clade Animalia
    Synonym: جانور (canavar)
  2. (figuratively) brute, beast, a person who behaves in a uncivilized manner
  3. beast of burden, draught animal, any animal that carries or pulls a load

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? haywān
Dari reading? haywān
Iranian reading? heyvân
Tajik reading? hayvon

Noun

Dari حیوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳайвон

حِیْوان (heyvân) (plural حیوانات (heyvânât) or حیوانان (heyvânân))

  1. animal
    Synonym: جانْوَر (jânvar)
    حیوان وحشیheyvân-e vahšiwild animal
  2. (offensive) beast, brute; person who behaves wildly
  3. (literary) life, vital force; (in particular) eternal life
    Synonym: حیات (hayât)
    آب حیوانâb-e heyvânwater of life

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیْوَان (haywān), from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

حیوان (haivānm (Gurmukhi spelling ਹੈਵਾਨ)

  1. animal; beast
    Synonym: جانور (jānvar)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیْوَان (haywān), from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Pronunciation

Noun

حَیوان (haivānm (Hindi spelling हैवान)

  1. beast; animal
    Synonym: جانْوَر (jānvar)

Derived terms