دیو

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian Persian دیو (div).

Noun

دیو • (div)

  1. demon
  2. giant

Descendants

  • Turkish: dev, div
  • → Serbo-Croatian: div / див

Persian

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Dari دیو
Iranian Persian
Tajik дев
رستم دیو را می‌کشد ― Rustam slays a demon

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *dyew-
    Proto-Indo-European *-ós
    Proto-Indo-European *deywós
    Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás
    Proto-Iranian *daywáh
    Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v)
    Persian دیو

    Inherited from Middle Persian (ŠDYA /⁠dēw⁠/, “evil spirit, forces of the Evil One”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (daiva-), from Proto-Iranian *daywáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? dēw
    Dari reading? dēw
    Iranian reading? div
    Tajik reading? dev

    Noun

    دیو • (dēw／div) (plural دیوان or دیوها)

    1. demon, devil, goblin; evil supernatural creature
      • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The tale of the Akwān Dēw”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎:
        تو مر دیو را مردم بد شناس
        کسی کو ندارد ز یزدان سپاس
        هرانکو گذشت از ره مردمی
        ز دیوان شمر مشمر از آدمی
        tu mar dēw rā mardum-i bad šinās
        kasē k-ō na-dārad zi yazdān sipās
        har ān k-ō guḏašt az rah-i mardumī
        zi dēwān šumar mašumar az ādamī
        Consider the demon to be a bad person.
        Whoever does not have gratitude towards God
        And whoever leaves the proper path of humanity:
        Count him as among the demons, do not consider him a human.
        (Classical Persian romanization)
      1. (Islam) wicked jinn; sometimes contrasted with پری (pari, “fairy, good jinn”).
      2. (Zoroastrianism) daeva, a spirit of evil

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    Urdu

    Etymology 1

    Borrowed from Classical Persian دیو (dēw).

    Noun

    دیو • (dēo, dev) m (Hindi spelling देव)

    1. demon
    2. devil

    Etymology 2

    From Sanskrit देव (deva).

    Noun

    دیو • (dev) m (Hindi spelling देव)

    1. deva
    2. deity
    3. god
    4. celestial being
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