اندلس

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْأَنْدَلُس (al-ʔandalus).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔan.da.ˈlus]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lʊ́s]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lʊ́s]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lús]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæn̪.d̪æ.lós]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lús]

Readings
Classical reading^?	andalus
Dari reading^?	andalus
Iranian reading^?	andalos
Tajik reading^?	andalus

Proper noun

اندلس • (andalos)

Andalusia (an autonomous community of Spain)
(historical) al-Andalus, Islamic Iberia
- c. 1250, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, “Ghazal 529”, in دیوان شمس تبریزی [Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī]‎:
  آن کس که در مغرب بود یابد خورش از اندلس
  وان کس که در مشرق بود او نعمت هرمز خورد
  ān kas ki dar mağrib buwad yābad xwariš az andalus
  w-ān kas ki dar mašriq buwad ō ni'mat-i hurmuz xwarad
  He who is in the West finds sustenance from al-Andalus,
  And he who is in the East eats from the bounties of Hormuz.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “اندلس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “اندلس”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (ondolus), from Arabic الْأَنْدُلُس (al-ʔandulus).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʊn.d̪ʊ.lʊs/
Rhymes: -ʊs
Hyphenation: اُنْ‧دُ‧لُس

Proper noun

اُنْدُلُس • (undulus) m (Hindi spelling अुंदुलुस)

(historical) al-Andalus, Iberian Peninsula

References

“اندلس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

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