نردبان
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- مردیون (merdiven), مردیوهن (merdiven)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian نردبان (nardabân).
Noun
نردبان • (nerdiban, nerdüban)
- stair, staircase, stairway, used to walk up and down
- Synonym: سلم (sullem)
- ladder, a portable frame used for ascent and descent
- Synonym: سلم (sullem)
Descendants
- Turkish: merdiven
- → Serbo-Croatian: mȅrdevine / ме̏рдевине
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merdiven”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3149
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نردبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1271
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scala”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1514
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نردبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 5160
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “merdiven”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نردبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2079
Persian
Alternative forms
- نردبون (nardebun), نوردبون (navardebun), نوردون (navardevon) (dialectal, Tehrani)
- نردبوم (nardebum) (dialectal, Shiraz)
- نردنگ (nardong) (dialectal, Arak)
Etymology
From نرد (nard, “tree trunk”) + بان (bân), a variant of بام (bâm, “roof”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /naɾd.ˈbaːn/, /naɾ.da.ˈbaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [näɹd̪.bɑːn], [näɾ.d̪ä.bɑːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [næɹd̪.bɒːn], [næɹd̪e.bɒːn]
- (Tehrani) IPA(key): [næɹ.d̪e.buːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [näɹd̪.bɔn]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | nardbān, narda-bān |
| Dari reading? | nardbān, narda-bān |
| Iranian reading? | nardbân, narde-bân |
| Tajik reading? | nardbon |
Noun
| Dari | زینه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | نردبان |
| Tajik | нардбон |
نردبان • (nardebân)
Synonyms
- سرت (sart) (regional)
Descendants
- → Armenian: նարդիվան (nardivan)
- → Azerbaijani: nərdivan
- → Crimean Tatar: nerduban
- → Ottoman Turkish: نردبان (nerdiban), مردیون (merdiven), مردیوهن (merdiven)
- Turkish: merdiven
- → Serbo-Croatian: mȅrdevine / ме̏рдевине
- → Crimean Tatar: merdiven
- → Turkmen: merdiwan
- → Uzbek: narvon
References
- Parsi dictionary[5], (Can we date this quote?)