جادو
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
جَادُو • (jādū) f
- A town in north-western Libya
Baluchi edit
Noun edit
جادو • (jádú)
See also edit
Old Anatolian Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- جاذو (cazu)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).
Noun edit
جادو (cadu)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish جادو (cadu), from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).
Noun edit
جادو • (cadu, cadı)
- magician, sorcerer / sorceress
- phantom; vampire, ghoul etc.
- (figurative) cantankerous woman, harridan
Descendants edit
- Turkish: cadı
- → Armenian: ջազի (ǰazi)
- → Bulgarian: джади́я (džadíja), джиди́я (džidíja)
- → Laz: ჯაზი (cazi), ჯადი (cadi)
- → Macedonian: џадија (džadija)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading edit
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جادو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 516a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جادی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 429a
Persian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yʾtwk' /ǰādūg/, “wizardry; wizard”), from Old Persian [script needed] (y-a-tu-u /yātu/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yaHtúš. Compare Sanskrit यातु (yātu).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɑː.ˈðuː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɒː.d̪úː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɔ.d̪ú]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | jāḏū |
Dari reading? | jādū |
Iranian reading? | jâdu |
Tajik reading? | jodu |
Noun edit
Dari | جادو |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ҷоду |
جادو • (jâdu)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Armenian: ջադու (ǰadu)
- → Assamese: যাদু (zadu)
- → Baluchi: جادو
- → Bengali: জাদু (jadu)
- → Chagatai: جادو
- → Georgian: ჯადო (ǯado)
- → Hindustani:
- → Punjabi: جادو (jādū)
- → Pashto: جادو (jādū)
- → Sindhi: جادو (jādū)
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: جادو (cadu), جاذو (cazu)
- → Turkmen: jady
- → Ushojo: جادُو (jādū)
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɑː.d̪uː/
- Rhymes: -uː
Noun edit
جادو • (jādū) m (Hindi spelling जादू)
- magic
- enchantment, charm
- incantation
- Synonym: ٹونا (ṭonā)
Derived terms edit
- جادوگر (jādūgar, “magician, wizard, sorcerer”)
- جادوگری (jādūgarī, “wizardry, sorcery”)
- جادوئی (jāduī, “magical, enchanted”)
References edit
- Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.