وارون
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- وارونه (varune)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian وارون (vârun, “upside down, inverted”).
Adjective
وارون • (varun)
- upside down, inverted, reverse, upturned
- Synonym: ترس (ters)
- (of a building) thrown down, demolished
- inauspicious, ill-omened, unfortunate, unfavorable
Descendants
- Turkish: varun
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “varun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5093
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “وارون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1299
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Iversus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 861
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “وارون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 5317
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “وارون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2122
Persian
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾp̄lʾlwn' /abārōn/, “contrary, wrong, sinful”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /waː.ˈɾuːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [wɑː.ɾúːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [vɒː.ɹúːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [vɔ.ɾún]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | wārūn |
| Dari reading? | wārūn |
| Iranian reading? | vârun |
| Tajik reading? | vorun |
Adjective
وارون • (wārūn / vârun) (Tajik spelling ворун)
- alternative form of وارونه (wārūna / vârune, “inverted”)
- (Classical Persian, figurative)
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: وارون (varun)
- Turkish: varun
References
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “abārōn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 2
Further reading
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “وارون”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press