زیتون

See also: زيتون

Ottoman Turkish

زیتون

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, olive).

Noun

زیتون (zeytun, zeytin)

  1. olive, the small oval fruit of the olive tree

Derived terms

  • زیتون آغاجی (zeytun ağacı, olive tree)
  • زیتونجی (zeytinci, grower or seller of olives)
  • زیتونلق (zeytunluk, olive-garden)
  • زیتونی (zeytuni, olive-green)
  • زیتار (zeytar, lees or dregs of oil)
  • زیت (zeyt, olive oil)

Descendants

  • Turkish: zeytin
  • Bulgarian: зехти́н (zehtín, olive oil)
  • Macedonian: зејтин (zejtin, cooking oil)
  • Serbo-Croatian: зѐјтӣн / zèjtīn (cooking oil)
    • Romanian: zăitin Banat
  • Ubykh: зеиҭын (zejtən)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /zajˈtun/

Noun

Dari زیتون
Iranian Persian
Tajik зайтун (zaytun)

زیتون (zeytun)

  1. olive

Derived terms

  • زیت (zeyt)
  • زیتار (zeytâr)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn) (through Classical Persian زیتون (zeytun)).

Pronunciation

Noun

زَیتُون (zaitūn) m (Hindi spelling ज़ैतून)

  1. olive

Declension

Declension of زیتون
singular plural
direct زیتون (zaitūn) زیتون (zaitūn)
oblique زیتون (zaitūn) زیتونوں (zaitūnō̃)
vocative زیتون (zaitūn) زیتونو (zaitūnō)

References

  • زیتون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • زیتون”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), زیتون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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