تازیانه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • تارزنه (tarzene), تازانه (tazane)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تازیانه (tâziyâne, whip), from Middle Persian [script needed] (tʾcʾnk' /⁠tāzānag⁠/).

Noun

تازیانه • (taziyane) (definite accusative تازیانه‌یی (taziyaneyi), plural تازیانه‌لر (taziyaneler))

  1. whip, lash, a pliant, flexible instrument used to direct and herd animals, or to strike a person as a punishment
    Synonyms: سوط (savt), قامچی (kamçı), قرباچ (kırbaç)
  2. plectrum, a small piece of metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of an instrument, such as a lyre, guitar, etc.
    Synonyms: زخمه (zahme), مضراب (mızrab)

Descendants

  • Turkish: taziyane, tarzene (obsolete), tezene (now standard)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: терзѝја̄н
    Latin script: terzìjān

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (tʾcʾnk' /⁠tāzānag⁠/).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɑː.zi.jɑː.nǽ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɑː.zi.jɑː.nǽ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɔː.zi.jɔː.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading? tāziyāna
Dari reading? tāziyāna
Iranian reading? tâziyâne
Tajik reading? toziyona

Noun

تازیانه • (tâziyâne) (plural تازیانه‌ها (tâziyâne-hâ))

  1. whip
    Synonym: شلاق (šallâq)
    • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎[6]:
      همچنین تازیانه‌ای عظیم قیمتی در دست گرفته و در پیش او سیصد مرد دیلم می‌رفت همه پیاده و جامه‌های زربفت رومی پوشیده []
      hamčunīn tāziyāna'ē azīm qīmatī dar dast girifta u dar pēš-i ō sēsad mard-i daylam mē-raft hama piyāda u jāma-hā-yi zarrbaft-i rūmī pōšīda []
      He also held a grand and costly whip in his hand, and before him three hundred men from Daylam were marching, all infantrymen, wearing Byzantine gold-spun robes []

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: taziyanə, tazyana
  • Northern Kurdish: taziyane
  • Ottoman Turkish: تازیانه (taziyane), تارزنه (tarzene), تازانه (tazane)
  • Pashto: تازيانه (tāzyāna)