بودنه

Persian

Alternative forms

  • بیدانه (bēdāna) (Tajik)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *bödene, via a Turkic source. Compare Kazakh бөдене (bödene), Tatar бүдәнә (büdänä), Uyghur بودۇنە (bodune), Uzbek bedana, Turkmen bedene. Largely displaced Classical Persian وَرْتِیج (wartīj) in the eastern dialects of Persian, while the Turkic borrowing بلدرچین (belderčin) has displaced it in the western ones.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bōdana
Dari reading? bōdana
Iranian reading? budane
Tajik reading? bedona

Noun

Dari بودنه
Iranian Persian بلدرچین
Tajik бедона, вартиш

بودنه • (bōdana) (plural بودنه‌ها) (chiefly Dari)

  1. quail
    تخم بودنهtuxm-i bōdanaquail eggs

References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بودنه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press