زیتون

See also: زيتون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, olive).

Noun

زیتون • (zeytun, zeytin)

  1. olive, the small oval fruit of the olive tree

Derived terms

  • زیتون آغاجی (zeytun ağacı, olive tree)
  • زیتونجی (zeytinci, grower or seller of olives)
  • زیتونلق (zeytunluk, olive grove)
  • زیتونی (zeytuni, olive-green)
  • زیت (zeyt, olive oil)
  • زیتار (zeytar, lees or dregs of oil)

Descendants

  • Turkish: zeytin
  • Bulgarian: зехти́н (zehtín, olive oil)
  • Macedonian: зејтин (zejtin, cooking oil)
  • Serbo-Croatian: зѐјтӣн / zèjtīn (cooking oil)
    • Romanian: zăitinBanat
  • Ubykh: зеиҭын (zejtən)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? zaytūn
Dari reading? zaytūn
Iranian reading? zeytun
Tajik reading? zaytun

Noun

Dari زیتون
Iranian Persian
Tajik зайтун

زیتون • (zeytun)

  1. olive

Derived terms

  • زیت (zeyt)
  • زیتار (zeytâr)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn) (through Classical Persian زیتون (zaytūn)).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /zɛː.t̪uːn/
  • Rhymes: -uːn
  • Hyphenation: زَے‧تُون

Noun

زَیتُون • (zaitūnm (Hindi spelling ज़ैतून)

  1. olive

Declension

Declension of زیتون
singular plural
direct زیتون (zaitūn) زیتون (zaitūn)
oblique زیتون (zaitūn) زیتونوں (zaitūnõ)
vocative زیتون (zaitūn) زیتونو (zaitūno)

References

  • زیتون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • زیتون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “زیتون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.