جزدان

جزدان

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian جزدان‎ (jozdân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiz.daːn/, /d͡ʒuz.daːn/

Noun

جِزْدَان or جُزْدَان • (jizdān or juzdān) m

1. purse, wallet

   Synonyms: مِحْفَظَة‎ (miḥfaẓa), حَافِظَة‎ (ḥāfiẓa), جَرَبَنْدِيَّة‎ (jarabandiyya)

Declension

Declension of noun جِزْدَان (jizdān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جِزْدَان jizdān	الْجِزْدَان‎ al-jizdān	جِزْدَان jizdān
Nominative	جِزْدَانٌ jizdānun	الْجِزْدَانُ‎ al-jizdānu	جِزْدَانُ jizdānu
Accusative	جِزْدَانًا‎ jizdānan	الْجِزْدَانَ‎ al-jizdāna	جِزْدَانَ jizdāna
Genitive	جِزْدَانٍ jizdānin	الْجِزْدَانِ‎ al-jizdāni	جِزْدَانِ jizdāni

References

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011), “جزدان”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “جزدان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “جزدان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1960), “جزدان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

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Persian

Etymology

جز‎ (joz, “part”) +‎ ـدان‎ (dân, “container”).

Pronunciation

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

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊzdɒːn/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒozdɒːn/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuzdɔːn/

Noun

جزدان • (jozdân)

1. portfolio

Descendants

• → Arabic: جِزْدَان‎ (jizdān), جُزْدَان‎ (juzdān)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: cizdan

  → Central Kurdish: جزدان‎ (cizdan)

• → Ottoman Turkish: جزدان‎ (cüzdan, cızdan)
  • Turkish: cüzdan
  • → Armenian: ճզտան (čztan), ջզդան (ǰzdan)
  • → Romanian: ghiozdan
• → Pashto: جزدان‎ (juzdā́n)

Further reading

• Palatecʿi, Gēorg Dpir (1829), “ճիւզտան”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʿ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 284b
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “جزدان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 362