حیوان

From Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

حیوان (ḥaywan) (plural حیوانلار)

1. animal

   Synonym: جانور (janwar)

• Uyghur: ھايۋان (haywan)
• Uzbek:

  Latin script: hayvon

  Cyrillic script: ҳайвон

• Schluessel, Eric (2018) “حیوان”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[1], Michigan Publishing, page 247

حَیوان (həyvân) (definite accusative حَیوانؽ, plural حَیوانلار)

1. Arabic spelling of həyvân (“animal”)

• հայվան (hayvan) — Armeno-Turkish

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

حیوان • (hayvan) (plural حیوانات (hayvanat))

1. animal, any multicellular organism in the clade Animalia

   Synonym: جانور (canavar)

2. (figuratively) brute, beast, a person who behaves in an uncivilized manner
3. beast of burden, draught animal, any animal that carries or pulls a load

• Turkish: hayvan
• → Albanian: hajvan
• → Armenian: հայվան (hayvan)
• → Greek: χαϊβάνι (chaïváni)
• → Macedonian: ајван (ajvan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: hajvan / хајван

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hayvan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1917
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حیوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 524
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Animal”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 63
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حیوان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1828
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hayvan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حیوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 817

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

• Rhymes: -ɑːn

حیوان • (haywān / heyvân) (plural حیوانات (haywānāt / heyvânât), or حیوانان (haywānān / heyvânân), Tajik spelling ҳайвон)

1. animal

   Synonym: جانور (jānwar / jânvar)

   حیوان وحشی ― heyvân-e vahši ― wild animal

2. (offensive) beast, brute; person who behaves wildly
3. (literary) life, vital force; (in particular) eternal life

   Synonym: حیات (hayāt / hayât)

   آب حیوان ― âb-e heyvân ― water of life

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2596:

     آب حیوان خوان مخوان این را سخن / روح نو بین در تن حرف کهن

     âb-i-haywân xwân maxwân en râ suxan / rûh-i-naw ben dar tan-i-harf-i-kuhan

     Call it the Water of Life, call it not a discourse: behold the new spirit in the body of the old letter!.

• → Azerbaijani: heyvan
  • → Talysh: həyvon

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیْوَان (haywān), borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

حیوان • (haivān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹੈਵਾਨ)

1. animal; beast

   Synonym: جانور (jānvar)

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیْوَان (haywān), borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɛː.ʋɑːn/

حَیوان • (haivān) m (Hindi spelling हैवान)

1. beast; animal

   Synonym: جانْوَر (jānvar)