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Etymology

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From Middle Persian sʾmʾn' (sāmān, limit, boundary), related to سامه (sâme, condition, bet). Cognate with Mazanderani سامون (sāmun, land, border). Akin to Old Armenian սահման (sahman); an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? sāmān
Dari reading? sāmān
Iranian reading? sâmân
Tajik reading? somon

Noun

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سامان (sâmân)

  1. boundary, limit, place where any sign or mark is placed to separate one field from another, a balk
  2. side, quarter
  3. city, town
  4. home
  5. household furniture, baggage

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Proper noun

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سامان (sâmân)

  1. a male given name, Saman, from Middle Persian

References

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Urdu

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Noun

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سامان (sāmānm (Hindi spelling सामान)

  1. goods
  2. stuff
  3. luggage
  4. baggage

Uyghur

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *sāman.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish saman.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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سامان (saman) (plural سامانلار (samanlar))

  1. straw, hay

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sama:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 828
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*siāpan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

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  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN