زمان

With the alternative form زَمَن (zaman) an old loan, becoming productive in the root ز م ن (z m n), perhaps directly borrowed from or from a close Aramaic relative to Imperial Aramaic 𐡆𐡌𐡍 (zmn), 𐡆𐡌𐡀𐡍 (zmʾn), borrowed from a late pronunciation of the religiously relevant Old Persian *jamānā (“time”), reconstructible for Proto-Iranian *ǰámaHnaH, of a native derivation type from Proto-Indo-European.

• IPA^(key): /za.maːn/

زَمَان • (zamān) m (plural أَزْمِنَة (ʔazmina))

1. (uncountable and countable) time

   Synonym: زَمَن (zaman)

   Coordinate term: مَكَان (makān)

2. age (A particular period of time in history)
3. season

   أَزْمِنَةُ ٱلسَّنَةِ هِيَ: ٱلْخَرِيفُ وَٱلشِّتَاءُ وَٱلرَّبِيعُ وَٱلصَّيْفُ

   ʔazminatu s-sanati hiya: l-ḵarīfu waš-šitāʔu war-rabīʕu waṣ-ṣayfu

   The seasons of the year are: autumn, winter, spring and summer.

• زَمَانِيّ (zamāniyy)
• زَمَكَان (zamakān)

• Maltese: żmien

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “زمان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 256
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “زمن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 444

From Proto-Iranian *hižwáH (compare Persian زوان (zavân)/زبان (zabân), Pashto ژبه (žəba), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬰𐬎𐬎𐬁 (hizuuā)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáH (compare Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā), Hindi जीभ (jībh)), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (compare Old Prussian insuwis, Russian язы́к (jazýk), French langue, English tongue).

• IPA^(key): /zmaːn/
• Hyphenation: ز‧مان

زمان (ziman)

1. tongue
2. language

From Arabic زَمَان (zamān).

زمان • (zamān)

1. long ago
   • 2019, الكتاب المقدس بالعربي الدارجي هنا تشاد [The Bible in Chadian Arabic]‎^[2], N'Djamena: Alliance biblique du Tchad, أعمال الرُسُل [Acts] 15:18:

     الْمَعْرُوف منِ زَمَان

     [he has made these things] known from the earliest times.

2. used to form the past tense of the copula: was, were

   هو زمان كريم ― hu zamān karīm. ― He was generous.

The past tense of the copula is usually implicit, however زمان or كان can also be used to express the past notion. While زمان is uninflected, كان changes in form according to the subject.^[1]

زَمان (zamân) (definite accusative زَمانؽ, plural زَمانلار)

1. Arabic spelling of zamân (“time”)

زمان (plural زمان-زمان or زمان٢)

1. Jawi spelling of zaman.‎‎

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭣𐭭𐭠 (ODNA /⁠zamān⁠/), 𐭦𐭬𐭠𐭭𐭩 (ẕmʾn' /⁠zamān⁠/), 𐭦𐭬𐭭𐭩 (zmn' /⁠zamān⁠/), 𐫉𐫖𐫀𐫗 (zmʾn /⁠zamān⁠/), from Old Persian *jamānā; see there for more.

• Rhymes: -ɑːn

زمان • (zamân) (plural زمان‌ها, or ازمنه (azmâne))

1. time, epoch, period, age, season (a broad time period; not the precise time on a clock)

   در زمان شاه ― dar zamân-e šâh ― in the time of the Shah

   در زمان جنگ ― dar zamân-e jang ― in the time of the war

   در این زمان ― dar in zamân ― in this period, in these days

   1. (physics) time
   2. (grammar) tense

      زمان گذشته ― zamân-e gozašte ― past tense

   3. (figurative) death

      Synonym: مرگ (marg)

• → Armenian: զաման (zaman)
• → Azerbaijani: zaman
• → Bashkir: заман (zaman)
• → Gilaki: [script needed] (zəmån)
• → Kazakh: заман (zaman)
• → Kermanic:

  Qohrudi: zamān

• → Khalaj: zamân
• → Central Kurdish: زه‌مان (zeman)
• → Kyrgyz: заман (zaman)
• → Malay: زمان / zaman
  • Indonesian: zaman, jaman
• → Ossetian: за́ман (záman)
• → Pashto: زمانه (zamâna)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زمان (zaman)
  • → Turkish: zaman
  • → Greek: ζαμάνι (zamáni)
  • → Albanian: zaman
  • → Serbo-Croatian: заман
• → Southern Altai: саман (saman)
• → Tatar: заман (zaman)
• → Waigali: zëmën

From Arabic زَمَان (zamān).

• IPA^(key): /za.maːn/, [zaˈmæːn], [zaˈmaːn]

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زمان • (zamān) m (plural زمانات (zamānāt))

1. time, period, era (in the past)

   كان عايش على زمان الأتراك.

   kān ʕāyeš ʕala zamān il-ʔatrāk

   He lived in the Ottoman period.

   (literally, “He was living in the time of the Turks.”)

2. (definite) long ago

   انتا متذكر كيف كانت أيّام زمان؟

   enta mitzakker kīf kānat ʔayyām zamān?

   Do you remember how the old days used to be?

   (literally, “Do you remember how the days of long ago were?”)

زمان • (zamān)

1. (in a) long time

   زمان ما رحت على رام الله.

   zamān mā ruḥt ʕala rām-allah

   I haven't been to Ramallah in a long time.

   ما شفته من زمان. ― mā šufto min zamān. ― I haven't seen him in a long time.

   زمان عنّك. ― zamān ʕannak ― Long time no see. (literally, “A long time from you.”)

• وقت (waʔt, “time”)
• مرّة (marra, “time, instance”)