زنجبیل

See also: زنجبيل

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• زنجفیل (zencefil)

Etymology

From Persian زنجبیل (zanjabil), زنجفیل (zanjafil).

Noun

زنجبیل • (zencebil, zencefil)

1. ginger

Descendants

• Turkish: zencefil
• → Albanian: xhenxhefil
• → Armenian: զենճեֆիլ (zenčefil)
• → Bulgarian: джинджифи́л (džindžifíl)
• → Georgian: ჯანჯაფილი (ǯanǯapili)

Persian

Alternative forms

• زنجفیل (zanjafil) (dialectal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَنْجَبِيل (zanjabīl). Doublet of شنگویر (šangevir, “ginger”, now archaic).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [zan.d͡ʒa.ˈβiːl]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zän.d͡ʒä.bíːl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zän.d͡ʒä.bíːl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zän.d͡ʒä.bíːl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zän.d͡ʒä.bíl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zæn.d͡ʒe.bíːl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zän.d͡ʒä.bíl]

Readings
Classical reading?	zanjaḇīl
Dari reading?	zanjabīl
Iranian reading?	zanjebil
Tajik reading?	zanjabil

Noun

Dari	زنجبیل
Iranian Persian
Tajik	занҷабил

زنجبیل • (zanjebil)

1. ginger

Descendants

• → Armenian: զանջաֆիլ (zanǰafil)
• → Azerbaijani: zəncəfil
• → Chagatai: زنجبیل
  • Uyghur: زەنجىۋىل (zenjiwil)
  • Uzbek: zanjabil
• → Kazakh: жанжабіл (janjabıl), занзабіл (zanzabıl)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zencefîl

  Central Kurdish: زه‌نجه‌فیل (zencefîl)

• → Lezgi: сенжефил (senžefil)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زنجبیل (zencebil, zencefil), زنجفیل (zencefil)
  • Turkish: zencefil
  • → Albanian: xhenxhefil
  • → Armenian: զենճեֆիլ (zenčefil)
  • → Bulgarian: джинджифи́л (džindžifíl)
  • → Georgian: ჯანჯაფილი (ǯanǯapili)
• → Turkmen: zenjebil
• → Urdu: زنجبیل (zanjabīl)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian زنجبیل (zanjabīl), from Arabic زَنْجَبِيل (zanjabīl).

Noun

زنجبیل • (zanjabīl) f (Hindi spelling ज़ंजबील)

1. ginger