جلاد

Arabic

Etymology

Occupational noun from the root ج ل د (j-l-d).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒal.laːd/

Noun

جَلَّاد • (jallād) m (plural جَلَّادُون (jallādūn))

  1. whipper, lasher
  2. executioner, headsman, torturer
  3. a person who treats others harshly
  4. leather merchant, skinner

Declension

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: جلاد (cellat)
    • Turkish: cellat
    • Albanian: xhelat
    • Armenian: ճելլատ (čellat), ջալադ (ǰalad)
    • Aromanian: gilát, giléat
    • Bulgarian: джела́т (dželát), джела́тин (dželátin)
    • Georgian: ჯალათი (ǯalati)
    • Greek: τζελάτης (tzelátis), τσελάτης (tselátis) (obsolete)
    • Macedonian: џелат (dželat), џелатин (dželatin)
    • Romanian: gealat
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: џѐла̄т
      Latin script: džèlāt
  • Persian: جلاد (jallâd)

Ottoman Turkish

جلاد

Etymology

From Arabic جَلَّاد (jallād).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒeˈlːɑt/

Noun

جلاد • (cellat)

  1. executioner, headsman

Descendants

  • Turkish: cellat
  • Albanian: xhelat
  • Armenian: ճելլատ (čellat), ջալադ (ǰalad)
  • Aromanian: gilát, giléat
  • Bulgarian: джела́т (dželát), джела́тин (dželátin)
  • Georgian: ჯალათი (ǯalati)
  • Greek: τζελάτης (tzelátis), τσελάτης (tselátis) (obsolete)
  • Macedonian: џелат (dželat), џелатин (dželatin)
  • Romanian: gealat
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џѐла̄т
    Latin script: džèlāt

References

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “783. GILÁT”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 131

Persian

جلاد

Etymology

From Arabic جَلَّاد (jallād).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒäl.lɑ́ːd̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d͡ʒäl.lɑ́ːd̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d͡ʒäl.lɔ́ːd̪̥]

Readings
Classical reading? jallāḏ
Dari reading? jallād
Iranian reading? jallâd
Tajik reading? jallod

Noun

جلاد • (jallâd) (plural جلادان (jallâdân))

  1. executioner, headsman
  2. (figurative) a merciless person, a violent person
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