یاد

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Khalaj

Noun

یاد (yâd) (definite accusative یادؽ, plural یادلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of yâd (memory)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Common Turkic *yāt (alien, foreign, unfamiliar).

Pronunciation

Adjective

یاد (yad)

  1. foreign, unfamiliar
Descendants
  • Turkish: yad

Etymology 2

From Persian یاد (yâd, memory).

Pronunciation

Noun

یاد (yâd)

  1. remembrance
Descendants

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian (/⁠ayād⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Habí- + *yáH- (probably from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (to go; to go in, to enter), with Iranian semantic shift "to enter " > "to remember"). Compare Tocharian A (opyāc, in remembrance), probably borrowed from an Eastern Iranian language.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? yāḏ
Dari reading? yād
Iranian reading? yâd
Tajik reading? yod

Noun

Dari یاد
Iranian Persian
Tajik ёд

یاد (yâd)

  1. memory
    Synonyms: حافظه (hâfeze), خاطر (xâter)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 11”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      گو نام ما ز یاد به عمداً چه می‌بری
      خود آید آن که یاد نیاری ز نام ما
      gū nām-i mā zi yād ba amdan či mē-barī
      xwad āyad ān ki yād nay-ārī zi nām-i mā
      Say, why do you purposely forget my name?
      The shall come by itself that you do not remember my name.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
verbal phrases
others

Descendants

Further reading

  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “یاد”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1499a–1500b
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ayād”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 15
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*HiaH”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 175

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian یاد (yād).

Pronunciation

Noun

یاد (yādf (Hindi spelling याद)

  1. memory
  2. recollection
  3. reminiscence

Declension

    Declension of یاد
singular plural
direct یاد (yād) یادیں (yādẽ)
oblique یاد (yād) یادوں (yādõ)
vocative یاد (yād) یادو (yādo)

Derived terms

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu یاد (yād).

Noun

یاد (yād)

  1. remembrance, remember