نردبان

• مردیون (merdiven), مردیوه‌ن (merdiven)

Borrowed from Persian نردبان (nardabân).

نردبان • (nerdiban, nerdüban)

1. stair, staircase, stairway, used to walk up and down

   Synonym: سلم (sullem)

2. ladder, a portable frame used for ascent and descent

   Synonym: سلم (sullem)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merdiven”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3149
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نردبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1271
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scala”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1514
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نردبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5160
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “merdiven”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نردبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2079

From نرد (“tree trunk”) + بان, a variant of بام (“roof”).

نَرْدِبان • (nardebân)

1. ladder (climbing tool)
2. staircase, steps

• سرت (regional)

• → Armenian: նարդիվան (nardivan)
• → Azerbaijani: nərdivan
• → Crimean Tatar: nerduban
• → Ottoman Turkish: نردبان
  • Ottoman Turkish: مردیوه‌ن
    • Turkish: merdiven
    • Crimean Tatar: merdiven
• Turkmen: merdiwan

• Parsi dictionary‎, (Can we date this quote?)