بادنجان

See also: باذنجان‎

Contents

Persian

بادنجان

Alternative forms

• بادمجان‎ (bâdemjân) (colloquial)
• بادلجان‎ (bâdeljân)
• بادنگان‎ (bâdengân), باذنگان‎ (bâzengân, bâzangân), پاتنگان‎ (pâtengân), باتنگان‎ (bâtengân) (archaic)

Etymology

From earlier بادنگان‎ (bâdengân), an Indo-Aryan borrowing; compare Sanskrit भण्टाकी (bhaṇṭākī, “aubergine”), itself likely of Dravidian origin.

Noun

Dari Persian	بادنجان‎
Iranian Persian	بادنجان‎
Tajiki Persian	бодинҷон (bodinjon)

بادنجان • (bâdenjân) (plural بادنجان‌ها‎ (bâdenjân-hâ))

1. aubergine (UK), eggplant (US)

Synonyms

• کهپرک‎ (kahparak)

Descendants

• Tajik: бодинҷон (bodinjon), бодимҷон (bodimjon), боқлаҷон (boqlajon)
• Arabic: بَاذِنْجَان‎ (bāḏinjān), بَاتِنْجَان‎ (bātinjān), بَتِنْجَان‎ (batinjān), بِدِنْجَان‎ (bidinjān)
  • Egyptian Arabic: بدنجان‎ (bidingā́n)
  • Hijazi Arabic: باتنجان‎ (bātinjān)
  • Maltese: brunġiel
  • → Asturian: berenxena
  • → Galician: berinxela, berenxena
  • → Middle Armenian: պատինճան (patinčan)
    • Armenian: բադրիջան (badriǰan)
  • → Persian: باذنجان‎ (bâzenjân)
  • → Portuguese: beringela, berinjela
    • → English: brinjal, brinjall, brinjaul
    • → Gujarati: બ્રિંજલ (briñjal)
    • → Hunsrik: Bërinschela
  • → Sardinian: pedringianu
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: бала̀нца̄на
    • Latin: balàncāna
  • → Spanish: berenjena
    • → Basque: berenjena
    • → Pohnpeian: pringihnas
  • → Swahili: bilingani
  • ⇒ Arabic: اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”) (with article)
    • → Aragonese: alberxena
    • → Catalan: albergínia
      • → Basque: alberjinia
      • → French: aubergine
        • Haitian Creole: berejèn
        • → Breton: berjinezenn
        • → Danish: aubergine
        • → Dutch: aubergine
        • → English: aubergine
          • Bislama: obesin
        • → German: Aubergine
        • → Limburgish: oberzjien
        • → Lower Sorbian: oberžina
        • → Luxembourgish: Aubergine
        • → Manx: auberjeen
        • → Norman: aubèrginne
        • → North Frisian: aubergine
        • → Norwegian: aubergine
        • → Occitan: aubergina
        • → Picard: oubàrjine
        • → Polish: oberżyna
        • → Romansch: oberschina
        • → Scots: aubergine
        • → Swedish: aubergin, aubergine
        • → Walloon: åberdjene
        • → West Frisian: auberzjine
  • ⇒ Romance: reshaped by word for "apple" (descendants of mālum)
    • Corsican: melzana
    • Emilian: melanzena
    • Friulian: melanzane
    • Italian: melanzana, melenzana
      • → Byzantine Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
        • Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
      • → German: Melanzani
      • → Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:
        • Cyrillic: меланцана
        • Latin: melancana
      • → Slovene: melancána
      • → Tigrinya: መለንዛና (mälänzana)
    • Ladino: melanzana
    • Ligurian: merenzana
    • Lombard: meresgian, maresgian, maresà, maregià
    • Medieval Latin: mēlongēna
    • Neapolitan: mulignana
    • Occitan: merinjana
    • Piedmontese: marzana
    • Sardinian: melinzana
    • Sicilian: milinciana, mulinciana, milinzana
    • Venetian: meƚansana
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܐܬܠܓܢ‎ (pāṯelgān)
• → Azerbaijani: badımcan
• → Georgian: ბადრიჯანი (badriǯani)
• → Kurdish: balîcan, bacan, balîcan, badincan

  Northern Kurdish: bacanê

  Central Kurdish: بادمجان‎‎‎ (badimcan), باینجان‎ (bayincan)

• → Lak: бадуржан (baduržan), бадиржан (badiržan)
• → Lezgi: бадамжан (badamžan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بادنجان‎ (bâdincân), بادنگان‎ (bâdingân), پاتلجان‎ (patlıcan), بادلجان‎ (bâdlicân)
  • Turkish: patlıcan
  • → Albanian: patëllxhan
  • → Aromanian: pãtlãganã
  • → Belarusian: баклажан (baklažan)
  • → Bulgarian: патладжан (patladžan), патлиджан (patlidžan)
    • → Hungarian: padlizsán
  • → Crimean Tatar: patılcan
  • → Czech: baklažán, patližán, patlažán
  • → Greek: πατλιτζάνι (patlitzáni)
  • → Macedonian: патлиџан (patlidžan)
  • → Malagasy: baranjely
  • → Polish: bakłażan
  • → Romanian: pătlăgea, pătlăgică
  • → Russian: баклажан (baklažan), бадража́н (badražán)
    • → Abaza: баклажа́н (bāklāžā́n)
    • → Abkhaz: абаклаџьан (ābāḳlāǯ̍ān)
    • → Estonian: baklažaan
    • → Karakalpak: baxlajan, baklajan
    • → Kyrgyz: баклажан (baklacan)
    • → Latvian: baklažāns
    • → Lithuanian: baklažanas
    • → Mongolian: баклажан (baklažan)
    • → Tatar: баклаҗан (baqlacan)
    • → Uzbek: baklajan
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: патлиџан
    • Latin: patlidžan
  • → Slovak: baklažán
  • → Ukrainian: баклажан (baklažan)
  • → Uzbek: baklajan
  • → Yiddish: פּאַטלעזשאַן‎ (patlezhan)
• → Turkmen: badamjan
• → Urdu: بادنجان‎ (bādinjān, bādanjān)
• → Zazaki: baincan

References

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “pătlăgánă”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 165