اندام
Persian
Alternative forms
- هندام (handâm, hendâm)
Etymology
Akin to Middle Persian hndʾm (handām, “member, limb”) (whence هندام (handâm)), Manichaean Parthian [Manichaean needed] (hndʾm /handām/, “limb, member; part, section”), Northern Kurdish endam, Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬛𐬁𐬨𐬀 (haṇdāma, “limb”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put”) + *-mn̥.
Compare also Arabic هِنْدَام (hindām) (whence هندام (hendâm)), Old Armenian անդամ (andam), Classical Mandaic ࡄࡀࡍࡃࡀࡌࡀ (handāmā), Aramaic הדמא (haddāmā), Classical Syriac ܗܕܡܐ (haddāmā), Iranian borrowings.
Noun
اندام • (andâm) (plural اندامها (andâm-hâ))
- limb
- organ
- body, figure
- (archaic) symmetry, order, arrangement
Derived terms
- اندامی (andâmi)
- خوشاندام (xoš-andâm)
- درشتاندام (dorošt-andâm)
- میانهاندام (miyâne-andâm)
- عرض اندام (arz-e-andâm)
- عرض اندام کردن (arz-e-andâm kardan)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: əndam
- → Ottoman Turkish: اندام (endam)
- Turkish: endam
References
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “اندام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “handām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 41
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “անդամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 187b
- Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 864