زمان

See also: رمان

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Alternative form of زَمَن (zaman) from Proto-Semitic *zaman-, from the root ز م ن (z-m-n).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /za.maːn/

Noun

زَمَان (zamān) m (plural أَزْمِنَة (ʾazmina))

  1. time, duration

Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), زمان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 256
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), زمن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Persian زمان (zamân).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zaman/
  • Rhymes: -aman, -man, -an

Noun

زمان (Rumi spelling zaman, plural زمان٢)

  1. age (particular period of time in history)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ODNA) / [script needed] (ẕmʾn' /zamān/) (Manichaean Middle Persian [script needed] (zmʾn /zamān/)), from Assyrian Akkadian [script needed] (zimān). Compare Parthian [Manichaean needed] (jmʾn /žamān/), Gurani ژەمەن (žaman, meal), Central Kurdish ژەم (žam, meal) and Old Armenian ժաման (žaman), ժամանակ (žamanak), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

Noun

Dari Persian زمان
Iranian Persian زمان
Tajiki Persian замон (zamon)

زمان (zamân)

  1. time (referring to a broad time period like epoch, period, season, etc. It is not the type of time that one reads from a watch or a clock)
  2. (physics) time
  3. season
  4. epoch
  5. (grammar) tense
  6. death

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Descendants

References

  • Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19), Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 91–92
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