اندام

• هندام‎ (handâm, hendâm)

Akin to Middle Persian hndʾm (handām, “member, limb”) (whence هندام‎ (handâm)), Manichaean Parthian [Manichaean needed] (hndʾm /handām/, “limb, member; part, section”), Northern Kurdish endam, Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬛𐬁𐬨𐬀‎ (haṇdāma, “limb”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put”) + *-mn̥.

Compare also Arabic هِنْدَام‎ (hindām) (whence هندام‎ (hendâm)), Old Armenian անդամ (andam), Classical Mandaic ࡄࡀࡍࡃࡀࡌࡀ‎ (handāmā), Aramaic הדמא‎ (haddāmā), Classical Syriac ܗܕܡܐ‎ (haddāmā), Iranian borrowings.

اندام • (andâm) (plural اندام‌ها‎ (andâm-hâ))

1. limb
2. organ
3. body, figure
4. (archaic) symmetry, order, arrangement

• اندامی‎ (andâmi)
• خوش‌اندام‎ (xoš-andâm)
• درشت‌اندام‎ (dorošt-andâm)
• میانه‌اندام‎ (miyâne-andâm)
• عرض اندام‎ ('arz-e andâm)
  • عرض اندام کردن‎ ('arz-e andâm kardan)

• → Azerbaijani: əndam
• → Ottoman Turkish: اندام‎ (endam)
  • Turkish: endam

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “اندام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “handām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 41
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “անդամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 187b
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 864