اندلس
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic الْأَنْدَلُس (al-ʔandalus).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ʔan.da.ˈlus/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lʊ́s]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæn̪.d̪æ.lós]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lús]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | andalus |
| Dari reading? | andalus |
| Iranian reading? | andalos |
| Tajik reading? | andalus |
Proper noun
اندلس • (andalos)
- Andalusia (a historical region and autonomous community in southern Spain, the most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain)
- (historical) al-Andalus, Islamic Iberia
- c. 1250, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, “Ghazal 529”, in دیوان شمس تبریزی [Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī][1]:
- آن کس که در مغرب بود یابد خورش از اندلس
وان کس که در مشرق بود او نعمت هرمز خورد- ān kas ki dar maġrib buwad yābad xwariš az andalus
w-ān kas ki dar mašriq buwad ō ni'mat-i hurmuz xwarad - He who is in the West finds sustenance from al-Andalus,
And he who is in the East eats from the bounties of Hormuz.
- ān kas ki dar maġrib buwad yābad xwariš az andalus
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “اندلس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “اندلس”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اندلس (ondolus), from Arabic الْأَنْدُلُس (al-ʔandulus).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʊn.d̪ʊ.lʊs/
- Rhymes: -ʊs
- Hyphenation: اُنْ‧دُ‧لُس
Proper noun
اُنْدُلُس • (undulus) m (Hindi spelling अुंदुलुस)
- (historical) al-Andalus, Iberian Peninsula
References
- “اندلس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.