ترانه

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”), as songs pass through air. Compare Northern Kurdish terrane (“joke, fun”), following a different route of sense development.

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ترانه • (tarâne) (plural ترانه‌ها)

1. song

   Synonym: آهنگ (âhang)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 271:

     در باغ میکشم می بر یاد دلستانی
     ای مطربان ترانه وی بلبلان فغانی

     dar bāġ mē-kašam may bar yād-i dilsitānē
     ay mutribān tarāna-yi way bulbulān faġānē

     I sip wine in the garden, remembering one who snatched my heart away;
     O minstrels, a song about her! Nightingales, a plaintive call!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (poetry) rubai

ترانه • (tarâne)

1. a female given name, Taraneh

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