جادو

Arabic

Etymology

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Proper noun

جَادُو • (jādū) f

1. A town in north-western Libya

Baluchi

Noun

جادو • (jádú)

1. magic
2. enchantment

See also

• جاتو (játú)
• سحر (sihr, sahr)
• جادوگر
• سحرگو (sahargo)
• سحر کنوخ (sihr kanox)

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

• جاذو (cazu)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).

Noun

جادو (cadu)

1. sorcerer / sorceress
2. fair eye

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: cadu
• Ottoman Turkish: جادو (cadu, cadı), جاذو (cazı), جادی (cadu, cadı), جاذی (cazı)
  • Turkish: cadı
  • → Armenian: ջազի (ǰazi)
  • → Bulgarian: джади́я (džadíja), джиди́я (džidíja)
  • → Laz: ჯაზი (cazi), ჯადი (cadi) — Lome
  • → Macedonian: џадија (džadija)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: џа̀дија

    Latin script: džàdija

Further reading

• Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13^th to the 16^th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎^[1], Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 51

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• جاذو (cazı), جادی (cadu, cadı), جاذی (cazı)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish جادو (cadu), from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).

Noun

جادو • (cadu, cadı)

1. magician, sorcerer / sorceress

   Synonyms: بوكوجی (büyücü), سحرباز (sihrbaz)

2. phantom; vampire, ghoul etc.
3. (figurative) cantankerous woman, harridan

Descendants

• Turkish: cadı
• → Armenian: ջազի (ǰazi)
• → Bulgarian: джади́я (džadíja), джиди́я (džidíja)
• → Laz: ჯაზი (cazi), ჯადი (cadi) — Lome
• → Macedonian: џадија (džadija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: џа̀дија

  Latin script: džàdija

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جادو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 516a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جادی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 429a

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yʾtwk' /⁠ǰādūg⁠/, “wizardry; wizard”), from Old Persian [script needed] (y-a-tu-u /⁠yātu⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yaHtúš. Compare Sanskrit यातु (yātu).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.ˈðuː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.d̪úː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.d̪úː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑː.d̪úː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɔː.d̪ú]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɒː.d̪úː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɔ.d̪ú]

Readings
Classical reading?	jāḏū
Dari reading?	jādū
Iranian reading?	jâdu
Tajik reading?	jodu

Noun

Dari	جادو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷоду

جادو • (jâdu)

1. magic, charm, enchantment, conjuration

   Synonyms: سحر (sehr), افسون (afsun), شعبده (ša'bade)

2. (archaic) wizard, conjurer, sorcerer, witch

   Synonyms: ساحر (sâher), جادوگر (jâdugar), افسونگر (afsungar)

   • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The reign of Gushtāsp”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎^[3]:

     یکی جادو آمد به دین آوری
     به ایران به دعوی پیغمبری
     همی گوید از آسمان آمدم
     ز نزد خدای جهان آمدم

     yakē jādū āmad ba dīn āwarī
     ba ērān ba da'wā-yi payğambarī
     hamē gōyad az āsmān āmadam
     zi nazd-i xudā-yi jahān āmadam

     A sorcerer came to bring his religion
     To Iran, claiming to be a prophet.
     He would say, "I have come from the heavens,
     I have come from the Lord of the world."

     (Classical Persian romanization)

3. (obsolete) juggling

Derived terms

• جادوگر (jâdugar)
• جادوگری (jâdugari)

 

Descendants

• → Armenian: ջադու (ǰadu)
• → Assamese: যাদু (zadu)
• → Baluchi: جادو
• → Bengali: জাদু (jadu)
• → Chagatai: جادو
  • Uyghur: جادۇ (jadu)
  • Uzbek: jodu
• → Georgian: ჯადო (ǯado)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जादू (jādū)

  Urdu: جادو (jādū)

  • → English: jadoo
• → Punjabi: جادو (jādū)
• → Pashto: جادو (jādū)
• → Sindhi: جادو (jādū)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: جادو (cadu), جاذو (cazu)
  • Azerbaijani: cadu
  • Ottoman Turkish: جادو (cadu, cadı), جاذو (cazı), جادی (cadu, cadı), جاذی (cazı)
    • Turkish: cadı
    • → Armenian: ջազի (ǰazi)
    • → Bulgarian: джади́я (džadíja), джиди́я (džidíja)
    • → Laz: ჯაზი (cazi), ჯადი (cadi) — Lome
    • → Macedonian: џадија (džadija)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: џа̀дија

      Latin script: džàdija

• → Turkmen: jady
• → Ushojo: جادُو (jādū)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑː.d̪uː/
• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

جادو • (jādū) m (Hindi spelling जादू)

1. magic
2. enchantment, charm
3. incantation

   Synonym: ٹونا (ṭonā)

Derived terms

• جادوگر (jādūgar, “magician, wizard, sorcerer”)
• جادوگری (jādūgarī, “wizardry, sorcery”)
• جادوئی (jāduī, “magical, enchanted”)

References

• Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.