ذهن

See also: ذہن, دھن, and دهن

Arabic

Root
ذ ه ن (ḏ-h-n)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ðihn/

Noun

ذِهْن • (ḏihn) m (plural أَذْهَان (ʔaḏhān))

  1. mind
    • Al-Mutanabbi
      وَلَيْسَ يَصِحُّ فِي الْأَذْهَانِ شَيْءٌ / إِذَا ٱحْتَاجَ النَّهَارُ إِلَى دَلِيلِ
      walaysa yaṣiḥḥu fī l-ʾaḏhāni šayʾun / ʾiḏā ḥtāja n-nahāru ʾilā dalīli
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. intellect

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: dehen
  • Azerbaijani: zehin
  • Bashkir: зиһен (zihen)
  • Kazakh: зейін (zeiın)
  • Persian: ذهن (zehn)
  • Ottoman Turkish: ذهن (zihn)
  • Tatar: зиһен (zihen)

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ذهن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذِهْن (ḏihn).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ḏihn
Dari reading? zehn
Iranian reading? zehn
Tajik reading? zehn
Dari ذهن
Iranian Persian
Tajik зеҳн

Noun

ذهن • (zehn)

  1. mind, intellect
    • c. 1120, Sanā'ī Ghaznawī, “Tarkīb-band in praise of Ērānshāh”, in دیوان فرخی سنایی [Dīvān of Sanā'i]:
      آفتاب اندر فلک شاگرد ذهن و رای تست
      مشتری در حسرترخسارهٔ چون ماه تست
      āftāb andar falak šāgird-i ḏihn u rāy-i tu-st
      muštarī dar hasrat-i ruxsāra-yi čūn māh-i tu-st
      The sun in the sky is the [mere] disciple of your intellect and thought;
      [The planet] Jupiter is yearning for your cheeks [which are beautiful] like the Moon.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  • ذهنی (zehni)
  • ذهین (zehin)

Further reading

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