نورانی
See also: نوراني
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic نُورَانِيّ (nūrāniyy, “luminous”).
Adjective
نورانی • (nurani)
Derived terms
- نورانیت (nuraniyet, “luminosity”)
Descendants
- Turkish: nurani
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nurani”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3570
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “nûrânî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1011
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نورانی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 975
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lucidus”, 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 251
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نورانی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 5273
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نورانی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2110
Persian
Etymology
Analyzable as نور (nur) + ـانی (-âni); compare خوبانی (xubâni). Possibly borrowed from, modeled after, or influenced by Arabic نُورَانِيّ (nūrāniyy).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /nuː.ɾaː.ˈniː/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [nuː.ɾɑː.níː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [nuː.ɹɒː.níː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [nu.ɾɔ.ní]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | nūrānī |
| Dari reading? | nūrānī |
| Iranian reading? | nurâni |
| Tajik reading? | nuroni |
Adjective
| Dari | نورانی |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | нуронӣ |
نورانی • (nurâni)
- luminous, lighting, glittering
- در شب، نورانی است. ― dar šab, nurâni ast. ― At night, it shines.
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 2557:
- عقل نورانی و نیکو طالبست، نفس ظلمانی برو چون غالبست
- 'aql nurâni o niku tâleb-ast, nafs-e zolmâni bar u čon ġâleb-ast
- The intellect is luminous and a seeker of good: how [then] does the dark fleshly soul prevail over it?
Descendants
- → Middle Armenian: նուրանի (nurani)
Noun
| Dari | نورانی |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | нуронӣ |
نورانی • (nurâni)