جزدان

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian جزدان (jozdân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiz.daːn/, /d͡ʒuz.daːn/

Noun

جِزْدَان or جُزْدَان • (jizdān or juzdān) m

1. purse, wallet

   Synonyms: مِحْفَظَة (miḥfaẓa), حَافِظَة (ḥāfiẓa), جَرَبَنْدِيَّة (jarabandiyya)

Declension

Declension of noun جِزْدَان (jizdān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جِزْدَان jizdān	الْجِزْدَان al-jizdān	جِزْدَان jizdān
Nominative	جِزْدَانٌ jizdānun	الْجِزْدَانُ al-jizdānu	جِزْدَانُ jizdānu
Accusative	جِزْدَانًا jizdānan	الْجِزْدَانَ al-jizdāna	جِزْدَانَ jizdāna
Genitive	جِزْدَانٍ jizdānin	الْجِزْدَانِ al-jizdāni	جِزْدَانِ jizdāni

References

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “جزدان”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “جزدان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “جزدان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “جزدان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

Persian

Etymology

جز (joz, “part”) +‎ ـدان (dân, “container”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒuz.dɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒʊz.d̪ɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒʊz.d̪ɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒʊz.d̪ɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒuz.d̪ɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒoz.d̪ɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒuz.d̪ɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	juzdān
Dari reading?	juzdān
Iranian reading?	jozdân
Tajik reading?	juzdon

Noun

جزدان • (jozdân)

1. portfolio

Descendants

• → Arabic: جِزْدَان (jizdān), جُزْدَان (juzdān)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: cizdan

  → Central Kurdish: جزدان (cizdan)

• → Ottoman Turkish: جزدان (cüzdan, cızdan)
  • Turkish: cüzdan
  • → Armenian: ճզտան (čztan), ջզդան (ǰzdan)
  • → Romanian: ghiozdan
• → Pashto: جزدان (juzdā́n)

Further reading

• Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “ճիւզտան”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 284b
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “جزدان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 362