حیوان

See also: حيوان

Chagatai

Etymology

From Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

حیوان (haywan)

1. animal

   Synonym: جانور (canwar)

Descendants

• Uyghur: ھايۋان (haywan)
• Uzbek:

  Latin script: hayvon

  Cyrillic script: ҳайвон

Further reading

• Schluessel, Eric (2018) “حیوان”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[1], Michigan Publishing, page 247

Khalaj

Noun

حَیوان (həyvân) (definite accusative حَیوانؽ, plural حَیوانلار)

1. Arabic spelling of həyvân (“animal”)

Declension

Declension of حیوان

	singular	plural
nominative	حیوان	حیوانلار
genitive	حیوانؽݧ	حیوانلارؽݧ
dative	حیوانقا	حیوانلارقا
definite accusative	حیوانؽ	حیوانلارؽ
locative	حیوانچا	حیوانلارچا
ablative	حیواندا	حیوانلاردا
instrumental	حیوانلا	حیوانلارلا
equative	حیوانوارا	حیوانلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

حیوانات

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

حیوان • (hayvan) (plural حیوانات (hayvanat))

1. animal, any multicellular organism in the clade Animalia

   Synonym: جانور (canavar)

2. (figuratively) brute, beast, a person who behaves in a uncivilized manner
3. beast of burden, draught animal, any animal that carries or pulls a load

Derived terms

• حیوان ناطق (hayvan-ı natık, “human, man”)
• حیوانجه (hayvanca, “brutal, wild”)
• حیوانلق (hayvanlık, “brutishness, brutality”)
• حیوانی (hayvanı, “pertaining to animals”)

 

Related terms

• حیوانیت (hevaniyet)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: hayvan
• → Albanian: hajvan
• → Greek: χαϊβάνι (chaïváni)
• → Macedonian: ајван (ajvan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: hajvan／хајван

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hayvan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1917
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حیوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 524
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Animal”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 63
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حیوان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1828
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hayvan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حیوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 817

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [haj.ˈwɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häj.wɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häj.wɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäj.wɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäj.wɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hej.vɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [häj.vɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	haywān
Dari reading?	haywān
Iranian reading?	heyvân
Tajik reading?	hayvon

• Rhymes: -ân

Noun

Dari	حیوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳайвон

حِیْوان • (heyvân) (plural حیوانات (heyvânât) or حیوانان (heyvânân))

1. animal

   Synonym: جانْوَر (jânvar)

   حیوان وحشی ― heyvân-e vahši ― wild animal

2. (offensive) beast, brute; person who behaves wildly
3. (literary) life, vital force; (in particular) eternal life

   Synonym: حیات (hayât)

   آب حیوان ― âb-e heyvân ― water of life

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2596:

     آب حیوان خوان مخوان این را سخن / روح نو بین در تن حرف کهن

     âb-i-haywân xwân maxwân en râ suxan / rûh-i-naw ben dar tan-i-harf-i-kuhan

     Call it the Water of Life, call it not a discourse: behold the new spirit in the body of the old letter!.

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیْوَان (haywān), from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Noun

حیوان • (haivān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹੈਵਾਨ)

1. animal; beast

   Synonym: جانور (jānvar)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیْوَان (haywān), from Arabic حَيَوَان (ḥayawān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɛː.ʋɑːn/

Noun

حَیوان • (haivān) m (Hindi spelling हैवान)

1. beast; animal

   Synonym: جانْوَر (jānvar)

Derived terms

• حَیْوانِیات (hayvāniyāt, “zoology”)
• حَیْوانِیَت (hayvāniyat, “bestiality”)
• حَیْوانی (hayvānī)