بادزن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بادزن (bâdzan), variant of بادبزن (bâdbezan, “fan”).

Noun

بادزن • (badzen)

1. fan, a hand-held device used to move air towards oneself in order to cool oneself

   Synonyms: مروح (mırvah), یلپازه (yelpaze)

Descendants

• Turkish: badzen

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “badzen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 423
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “bâdzen”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 79
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Flabellum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 586
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بادزن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 317