جشن

See also: خشن, حسن, and ح س ن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yšn' /⁠jašn⁠/), from Old Persian [script needed] (*yašna-), from Proto-Iranian *Hyajnáh (“worship, sacrifice”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒaʃn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæʃn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	jašn
Dari reading^?	jašn
Iranian reading^?	jašn
Tajik reading^?	jašn

Audio (Iran): (file)

Noun


Iranian Persian	جشن
Dari	جشن
Tajik	ҷашн

جَشْن • (jašn) (plural جشن‌ها)

celebration, festival, feast
― jašn-e nowruz ― Nowruz celebrations

― jašn-e tavallod ― birthday celebrations

― jašni barpâ bud. ― A festival was underway.
- c. 1030, Farrukhī Sīstānī, “ترجیعات”, in دیوان اشعار [Diwān-i Ašʿār]:
  بدین شایستگی جشنی بدین بایستگی روزی
  ملک را در جهان هر روز جشنی باد و نوروزی
  bedin šâyestegi jašni bedin bâyestegi ruzi
  malek râ dar jahân har ruz jašni bâd o nowruzi
  A feast of such worth, a day of such need; may every day be a feast and a Nowruz to the king in the world!

Derived terms

جشن گرفتن (jašn gereftan)

Descendants

Bengali: জশন (jośon), জশ্ন (jośno)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: जशन (jaśan), जश्न (jaśna)

Urdu: جَشْن (jaśn)
→ Pashto: جشن (jašᶕn)

References

^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 122

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (jašn).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəʃ(.ə)n/
Rhymes: -əʃn
Hyphenation: جَشْن

Noun

جَشْن • (jaśn) m (Hindi spelling जशन)

banquet, feast
festival, celebration

Declension

Declension of **جشن**
	singular	plural
direct	جَشْن (jaśn)	جَشْن (jaśn)
oblique	جَشْن (jaśn)	جَشْنوں (jaśnõ)
vocative	جَشْن (jaśn)	جَشْنو (jaśno)

Derived terms

جَشْنِ آزادی (jaśn-i āzādī, “independence day”)
جَشْنِ بَہاران (jaśn-i bahārān, “spring celebration”)
جَشْنِ بُزُرْگ (jaśn-i buzurg, “Persian new year”)
جَشْنِ سال گِرَہ (jaśn-i sāl gira, “birthday celebration”)
جَشْنِ عَظِیم (jaśn-i 'azīm, “grand celebration”)
جَشْنِ عِید (jaśn-i 'īd, “Eid celebrations”)
جَشْنِ فَتْح (jaśn-i fath, “victory celebration”)
جَشْنِ نَوروز (jaśn-i nauroz, “Nowruz”)
جَشْنی (jaśnī, “fond of feasting”)

Further reading

Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “جشن”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
“جشن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
“جشن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.