بادنجان

See also: باذنجان‎

Persian

بادنجان

Alternative forms

بادمجان‎ (bâdemjân) (colloquial)
بادلجان‎ (bâdeljân)
بادنگان‎ (bâdengân), باذنگان‎ (bâzengân, bâzangân), پاتنگان‎ (pâtengân), باتنگان‎ (bâtengân) (archaic)

Etymology

From earlier ‎ (bâdengân), an Indo-Aryan borrowing, from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātiga-gama, “eggplant”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /bɑːðinˈd͡ʒɑːn/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /bɑːdɪnˈd͡ʒɑːn/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /bɒːdenˈd͡ʒɒːn/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /bɔdinˈd͡ʒɔn/

Noun

Iranian Persian	بادنجان
Dari	بادنجان
Tajik	бодинҷон (bodinjon)

بادنجان • (bâdenjân) (plural بادنجان‌ها‎ (bâdenjân-hâ))

aubergine (UK), eggplant (US)

Synonyms

کهپرک‎ (kahparak)

Descendants

Tajik: бодинҷон (bodinjon), бодимҷон (bodimjon), боқлаҷон (boqlajon)
→ Arabic: بَاذِنْجَان‎ (bāḏinjān), بَاتِنْجَان‎ (bātinjān), بَتِنْجَان‎ (batinjān), بِدِنْجَان‎ (bidinjān)
- Egyptian Arabic: بتنجان‎ (betengán)
- Gulf Arabic: بيذيان‎ (bēḏyān), بيديان‎ (bēdyān)
- Hijazi Arabic: بادنجان‎ (bādinjān), باتنجان‎ (bātinjān)
- Maltese: brunġiel
- Moroccan Arabic: دنجال‎ (danjāl), دنجان‎ (danjān), دمنجال‎ (dmanjāl), دمنجان‎ (dmanjān)
- → Asturian: berenxena
- → Galician: berinxela, berenxena
- → Middle Armenian: պատինճան (patinčan)
  - Armenian: բադրիջան (badriǰan)
- → Persian: باذنجان‎ (bâzenjân)
- → Portuguese: beringela, berinjela
  - → English: brinjal, brinjall, brinjaul
  - → Gujarati: બ્રિંજલ (briñjal)
  - → Hunsrik: Bërinschela
- → Sardinian: pedringianu
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: бала̀нца̄на
  Latin: balàncāna
- → Spanish: berenjena
  - → Basque: berenjena
  - → Kapampangan: balasenas
  - → Ladino: berenjena, berendjena
  - → Pohnpeian: pringihnas
  - → French: beringène
    - Dutch: boulanger
- → Swahili: bilingani
- ⇒ Arabic: اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”) (with article)
  - → Aragonese: alberxena
  - → Catalan: albergínia, verginya
    - → Basque: alberjinia
    - → French: aubergine
      - Haitian Creole: berejèn
      - → Breton: berjinezenn
      - → Danish: aubergine
      - → Dutch: aubergine
      - → English: aubergine
        Bislama: obesin
      - → German: Aubergine
      - → Limburgish: oberzjien
      - → Lower Sorbian: oberžina
      - → Luxembourgish: Aubergine
      - → Manx: auberjeen
      - → Norman: aubèrginne
      - → North Frisian: aubergine
      - → Norwegian: aubergine
      - → Occitan: aubergina
      - → Picard: oubàrjine
      - → Piedmontese: obergin-a
      - → Polish: oberżyna
      - → Romansch: oberschina
      - → Scots: aubergine
      - → Swedish: aubergin, aubergine
      - → Walloon: åberdjene
      - → West Frisian: auberzjine
- ⇒ Romance: reshaped by word for "apple" (descendants of mālum)
  - Corsican: melzana
  - Emilian: melanzena
  - Friulian: melanzane
  - Italian: melanzana, melenzana
    - → Byzantine Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
      - Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
    - → Austrian German: Melanzani
    - → Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
    - → Macedonian: малиџано (malidžano)
      - → English: malidzano
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: меланцана
      Latin: melancana
    - → Slovene: melancána
    - → Tigrinya: መለንዛና (mälänzana)
  - Ladino: melanzana
  - Ligurian: meizann-a, merenzana
  - Lombard: meresgian, maresgian, maresà, maregià
  - Medieval Latin: mēlongēna
  - Neapolitan: mulignana
  - Occitan: merinjana
  - Piedmontese: marzana
  - Sardinian: melinzana
  - Sicilian: milinciana, mulinciana, milinzana, mulanciana
  - Venetian: meƚansana
→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܐܬܠܓܢ‎ (pāṯelgān)
→ Azerbaijani: badımcan
→ Northern Kurdish: balîcan, bacan, balîcan, badincan
Northern Kurdish: bacanê
→ Lishana Deni: באגׄאנא‎ (bājāna), בנגׄאנא‎ (banjāna)
Central Kurdish: بادمجان‎ (badimcan), باینجان‎ (bayincan)
→ Lak: бадуржан (baduržan), бадиржан (badiržan)
→ Lezgi: бадамжан (badamžan)
→ Ottoman Turkish: بادنجان‎ (bâdincân), بادنگان‎ (bâdingân), پاتلجان‎ (patlıcan), بادلجان‎ (bâdlicân), بادنجان‎ (badincan), بادنگان‎ (badingan), پاتلجان‎ (patlıcan), پاطلجان‎ (patlıcan)
- Turkish: patlıcan
- → Albanian: patëllxhan
- → Aromanian: pãtlãganã
- → Armenian: փաթլիճան (pʿatʿličan)
- → Belarusian: баклажан (baklažan)
- → Bulgarian: патладжан (patladžan), патлиджан (patlidžan)
  - → Hungarian: padlizsán
- → Crimean Tatar: patılcan
- → Czech: baklažán, patližán, patlažán
- → Greek: πατλιτζάνι (patlitzáni)
- → Laz: ფატიჯანი (paťicani)
- → Macedonian: патлиџан (patlidžan)
- → Malagasy: baranjely
- → Middle Georgian: ბადლიჯანი (badliǯani)
  - Georgian: ბადრიჯანი (badriǯani), პატრიჟანი (ṗaṭrižani), პატინჟან (ṗaṭinžan), ბადუმჟან (badumžan)
    - → Armenian: բադրիջան (badriǰan) (Tbilisi)
    - → Mingrelian: პატრიჟანი (ṗaṭrižani), ბადრიჟანი (badrižani)
      - → Abkhaz: а-паҭырџьан (a-pʼatərdžan, “tomato”)
    - → Svan: პა̈ტრიჯან (ṗäṭriǯan, “tomato”), პატრიჯან (ṗaṭriǯan), პატრაჯ (ṗaṭraǯ)
- → Polish: bakłażan
- → Romanian: pătlăgea, pătlăgică
- → Russian: баклажан (baklažan), бадаржа́н (badaržán), бадижа́н (badižán); бадража́н (badražán)
  - → Abaza: баклажа́н (baklažán)
  - → Abkhaz: а-баклаџьан (a-bakʼladžan)
  - → Estonian: baklažaan
  - → Karakalpak: baxlajan, baklajan
  - → Kyrgyz: баклажан (baklajan)
  - → Latvian: baklažāns
  - → Lithuanian: baklažanas
  - → Mongolian: баклажан (baklažan)
  - → Polish: bakłażan
  - → Tatar: баклаҗан (baqlacan)
  - → Uzbek: baklajan
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: патлиџан
  Latin: patlidžan
- → Slovak: baklažán
- → Ukrainian: баклажан (baklažan)
- → Uzbek: baklajan
- → Yiddish: פּאַטלעזשאַן‎ (patlezhan)
→ Turkmen: badamjan
→ Urdu: بادنجان‎ (bādinjān, bādanjān)
→ Zazaki: baincan

References

Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “pătlăgánă”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 165