زردخان
Arabic
Alternative forms
- زَرْدَخَانَة (zardaḵāna), زَرْدَخَانِيّ (zardaḵāniyy)
Etymology
Via Persian, and the etymology of the city name А́страхань (Ástraxanʹ) it relates to is itself highly disputed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zar.da.xaːn/
Noun
زَرْدَخَان • (zardaḵān) m
- (historical) a kind of fabric, astrakhan
- 1355, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, editor, تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار [tuḥfat an-nuẓẓār fī ḡarāʾib al-ʾamṣār wa ʿajāʾib al-ʾasfār], volume 3, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1855, page 423 line 6:
- 1355, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, editor, تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار [tuḥfat an-nuẓẓār fī ḡarāʾib al-ʾamṣār wa ʿajāʾib al-ʾasfār], volume 4, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, page 404 line 6:
- 2013, بكاي عبد المالك, “الأسرة الريفية في المغرب الأوسط من القرن 7-10هـ /13-16م”, in مجلة الآداب و العلوم الإجتماعية, volume 10, number 10, page 72 line 6:
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Descendants
- → Spanish: zarzahán, zargagan, çarçaan, zarzagán, çarçanan, zarçaan, zarzahan (XV–XVIth century)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “زردخان”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 585
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, page 369
- Stala, Ewa (1999), “Arabisms in the Spanish Inventory of Moorish goods in the Kingdom of Granada”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, volume 4, page 154