𐎠𐎱𐎭𐎠𐎴

Old Persian

Etymology

Compare Parthian 𐭀𐭐𐭃𐭍 (ʾpdn) 𐭀𐭐𐭃𐭍𐭉 (ʾpdny /⁠apadan⁠/), 𐭀𐭐𐭃𐭍𐭊 (ʾpdnk)𐭀𐭐𐭃𐭍𐭊𐭉 (ʾpdnky /⁠apadanak⁠/), Manichaean Parthian 𐫀𐫛𐫅𐫗 (ʾpdn), 𐫀𐫜‎𐫅𐫗 (ʾf‎dn /⁠afdan⁠/, “palace”), and borrowings Old Armenian ապարանք (aparankʻ), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic אפדנא, Classical Syriac ܐܦܕܢܐ (ʾāppaḏnāʾ), Hebrew אפדן, Arabic فدن (fadan).
Compare with Sanskrit अपध (apadha, “concealment”) and Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”).

Noun

𐎠𐎱𐎭𐎠𐎴 (apadāna) m

Descendants

Middle Persian:
Manichaean script: 𐫀𐫀𐫏𐫇𐫗 (ʾʾywn /⁠āywan⁠/, “palace”)

Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾdwn' /⁠ēwan⁠/, “stalk, trunk”)
- Classical Persian: ایوان (aywān)
  Persian: ایوان (ayvân, ayvân, eyvân)
  - Tajik: айвон (ayvon)
  - → Arabic: إيوان (ʔīwān)
    → English: iwan, liwan
  - → Armenian: այվան (ayvan)
  - → Azerbaijani: eyvan
  - → Georgian: აივანი (aivani)
  - → Gujarati: ઐવાન (aivān), એવાન (evān)
  - → Kazakh: айуан (aiuan)
  - → Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: eywan, êwan, (less commonly) heywan, hêwan
    Central Kurdish: ئەیوان (aywān), ئێوان (ēwān)
  - → Kyrgyz: айван (ayvan)
  - → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ऐवान (aivān)
    Urdu: ایوان (aivān)
    → Punjabi: اَیْوَان (aivān)
  - → Old Azari: ایوان (/⁠aywān⁠/)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: ایوان (eyvan)
    Turkish: eyvan
    → Armenian: էյվան (ēyvan)
  - → Russian: айван (ajvan)
    → Belarusian: айван (ajvan)
    → Ukrainian: айва́н (ajván), ейван (ejvan)
  - → Uzbek: ayvon
  - → Zazaki: eywan (/⁠aywān⁠/)
→ Akkadian: 𒀊𒉺𒁕𒀭 (ap-pa-da-an /⁠appadān⁠/)
- → Aramaic:
  Aramaic: אַפַּדְנָא (/⁠ʾāppaḏnāʾ⁠/)
  
  Palmyrene script: 𐡠𐡱𐡣𐡭𐡠 (ʾpdnʾ /⁠ʾāppaḏnāʾ⁠/)
  
  Classical Syriac: ܐܦܕܢܐ (/⁠ʾāppaḏnāʾ⁠/)
  - → Arabic: فدن (fadan)
- → Hebrew: אַפֶּדֶן (/⁠ʾāppaḏan⁠/)
→ Elamite: 𒄩𒁀𒆪𒈾 (ha-ba-da-na /⁠habadana⁠/)