بادنجان

See also: باذنجان

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From earlier بَادِنْگَان (bādingān), an Indo-Aryan borrowing, from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa), from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV.

    Pronunciation

     
    • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bɑː.d̪ɪn.d͡ʒɑ́ːn]
      • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [bɑː.d̪ɪn.d͡ʒɑ́ːn]
      • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [bɔː.d̪in.d͡ʒɔ́ːn]
     
    • (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bɒː.d̪en.d͡ʒɒ́ːn]
      • (Tehrani) IPA(key): [bɒː.d̪en.d͡ʒúːn]

    Readings
    Classical reading? bādinjān
    Dari reading? bādinjān
    Iranian reading? bâdenjân
    Tajik reading? bodinjon
    • Audio (Iran):(file)

    Noun

    Dari بادنجان
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik бодинҷон

    بادنجان • (bâdenjân) (plural بادنجان‌ها)

    1. aubergine, eggplant
      Synonym: کهپرک (kahparak)

    Descendants

    References

    1. ^ “Vegetables”, in Thematic Tajiki Dialect Dictionary[1], Center for Turkic and Iranian Lexicography and Dialectology, (Can we date this quote?)
    • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “pătlăgánă”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 165