یزدان

See also: يزدان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian (yazdân).

Proper noun

یزدان • (Yezdan)

(Zoroastrianism) God, the creator of good

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یزدان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2202

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian yẕdʾn' (yazdān, “gods, spirits”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁ǵ- (“to revere, worship, sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /jaz.ˈdaːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jæz.d̪ɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jäz.d̪ɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	yazdān
Dari reading^?	yazdān
Iranian reading^?	yazdân
Tajik reading^?	yazdon

Noun


Iranian Persian	یزدان
Dari	یزدان
Tajik	яздон

یَزْدان • (yazdân)

god
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 295:
  ز آن سبب فرمود یزدان و الضحی
  و الضحی نور ضمیر مصطفی
  z-ān sabab farmūd yazdān waz-zuhā
  waz-zuhā nūr-i zamīr-i Mustafā
  For that reason God said, By the morn:
  by the morn is (refers to) the light of the hidden mind of Mustafá (Mohammed).
a divinity, an angel
an epithet of saints or prophets

Related terms

یزدانی (yazdâni)
ایزد (izad)

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian (yazdān).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /jəz.d̪ɑːn/

Noun

یزدان • (yazdān) ?

God, the creator of good, Goddess of righteousness