دهقان

See also: دہقان‎

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian [script needed] (dhywkʾn' /dahigān/).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dih.qaːn/, /duh.qaːn/

Noun

دِهْقَان or دُهْقَان • (dihqān or duhqān) m (plural دَهَاقِين‎ (dahāqīn), feminine دِهْقَانَة‎ (dihqāna))

  1. dehqan, publican
  2. publican, alekeeper

Declension

Derived terms

  • دَهْقَنَ‎ (dahqana, “to make dehqan, to elevate into the dehqan peerage”)
  • دَهْقَنَة‎ (dahqana, “noble character; astuteness, shrewdness”)

References

  • Ullmann, Manfred (1992) Das Motiv des Spiegels in der arabischen Literatur des Mittelalters (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen: Philologisch-historische Klasse; 198) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 145–147

Persian

Etymology

The form from Arabic دِهْقَان‎ (dihqān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (dhywkʾn' /dahigān/, “countryman, farmer”), also found as دهگان‎ (dehgân) and دهخان‎ (dehxân), originally meaning “pertaining to the ده‎ (deh, “village”)”, from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (MTA /deh/, “country, land; village”). Akin to Old Armenian դեհկան-ութիւն (dehkan-utʿiwn), Classical Syriac ܕܗܩܢܐ‎ (dahqānā).

Pronunciation

  • (Dari): IPA(key): /dɪhqɒːn/

Noun

Dari دهقان
Iranian Persian
Tajik деҳқон (dehqon)

دهقان • (dehqân)

  1. farmer, peasant
  2. dihqan
  • دهقانی‎ (dehqâni)

Descendants

  • → Urdu: دہقان‎ (dehqān)
  • → Uzbek: dehqon

Proper noun

Dari دهقان
Iranian Persian
Tajik Деҳқон (Dehqon)

دهقان • (dehqân)

  1. a surname, Dehghan, Dehqan

Further reading

  • Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28)‎, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 148
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 139
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855), “دهقان”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 942
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