اسپندان

اسپندان

Persian

اسپندان – Sinapis alba

Alternative forms

• سپندان‎ (sepandân)

Etymology

Containing the word for “white”, now سفید‎ (safêd). Probably also confounded with اسپند‎ (espand, “Syrian rue”) and containing دان‎ (dân, “seed”). Forms auslauting in /ɾ/ are contaminated by کندر‎ (kondor, “olibanum-tree; olibanum”)-

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ispandɑːn/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ɪspandɒːn/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /espændɒːn/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ispandɔːn/

Noun

اسپندان • (espandân)

1. white mustard (Sinapis alba)

Descendants

• → Arabic: أَسْبَنْدَار‎, أَسْبَنْذَار‎, أَسْبِنْدَار‎, أَسْبِنْذَار‎, أَسْفِنْدار‎, أَسْفِنْذَار‎, أَسْفَنْد‎ (obsolete, uncommon)
• → Urdu: اسپندان‎ (ispandān)

References

• Flattery, David Stophlet; Schwartz, Martin (1989) Haoma and Harmaline. The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen “Soma” and its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle Eastern Folklore (Near Eastern Studies; 21), Berkeley · Los Angeles · London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 143