ارزان
See also: ارزاں
Baluchi
Adjective
ارزان • (arzán)
Khalaj
Adjective
اَرزان (arzân or ərzân)
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اَرْزَان (arzān, “cheap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.zɑn/
Adjective
ارزان • (arzān)
Declension
declension of ارزان
See also
- ارزانه (arzāna)
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlcʾn /arzān/), 𐫀𐫡𐫉𐫀𐫗 (ʾrzʾn /arzān/, “valuable, worthy”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlc /arz/, “worth, value”) + [Book Pahlavi needed] (-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
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ʔaɾ.ˈzaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäɾ.zɑ́ːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæɹ.zɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäɾ.zɔ́n]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | arzān |
| Dari reading? | arzān |
| Iranian reading? | arzân |
| Tajik reading? | arzon |
Audio (Iran): (file)
Adjective
| Dari | ارزان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | арзон |
ارزان • (arzân) (comparative ارزانتَر, superlative ارزانتَرین)
- 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
- ارزانی (arzâni)
- ارزانفروش (arzân-foruš)
- حاجیارزونی (hâji-'arzuni)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Baluchi: ارزان (arzán)
- → Bashkir: арзан (arzan)
- → Kazakh: арзан (arzan)
- → Khalaj: arzân
- → Kyrgyz: арзан (arzan)
- → Pashto: ارزان (arzân)
- → Tatar: арзан (arzan)
- → Turkmen: arzan
- → Urdu: ارزاں (arzān)
- → Ushojo: ارزان (arzān)
- → Uyghur: ئەرزان (erzan)
- → Uzbek: arzon
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
Noun
اَرزان (arzān)