بوزینه

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian [Term?]; compare Pashto بيزو (bízo, “monkey”). Anciently borrowed into Old East Slavic обезьꙗ́на (obezĭjána) whence Russian обезья́на (obezʹjána, “monkey, ape”), and likely into Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰲𐰃𐰤 (béčin, “monkey”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /buː.ziː.ˈna/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.nǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.nǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bu.zi.nǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [buː.ziː.né]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bu.zi.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	būzīna
Dari reading^?	būzīna
Iranian reading^?	buzine
Tajik reading^?	buzina

Noun

بوزینه • (buzine)

monkey; ape
Synonyms: میمون (meymun), کپی (kapi)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 282:
  هرچه مردم می‌‌کند بوزینه هم
  آن کند کز مرد بیند دم‌‌به‌‌دم
  harči mardum mē-kunad būzīna ham
  ān kunad k-az mard bēnad dam ba dam
  Whatever a man does, the ape at every moment does the same thing that he sees done by the man.

Alternative forms

بوزنه (buzane), ابوزینه (abuzine) (obsolete)

Descendants

→ Middle Armenian: ապուզնայ (apuznay)