تن
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
From Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
تُنّ • (tunn) m
Declension edit
Burushaski edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
تن (tin)
References edit
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle Persian tn' (tan), from Old Persian 𐎫𐎵𐎢𐏁 (tanūš), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tanúHs, from Proto-Indo-European *tenuh₂- (“body”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [tan]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰæn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰän]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | tan |
Dari reading? | tan |
Iranian reading? | tan |
Tajik reading? | tan |
Noun edit
Dari | تن |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | тан |
تن • (tan)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Bashkir: тән (tən)
- → Kazakh: тән (tän)
- → Ottoman Turkish: تن (ten)
- Turkish: ten
- → Uyghur: تەن (ten)
- → Uzbek: tan
Etymology 2 edit
From French tonne (in Iran) or from English ton (in Dari).
Pronunciation edit
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰon]
Readings | |
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Dari reading? | tan |
Iranian reading? | ton |
Noun edit
Dari | تن |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | тонна |
تن • (ton or tan)
- a tonne / metric ton
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑀡𑀽 (taṇū), from Sanskrit तनू (tanū́), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tanúHs, from Proto-Indo-European *tenúh₂s, from *tenuh₂- (“body”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ən/
Noun edit
تَن • (tan) m (Hindi spelling तन)
Synonyms edit
References edit
- Platts, John T. (1884) “تن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.