قارن

From the root ق ر ن‎ (q-r-n).

• IPA^(key): /qaː.ra.na/

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قَارَنَ • (qārana) III, non-past يُقَارِنُ‎‎ (yuqārinu)

1. (transitive) to become associated with [+accusative = what]
2. (transitive) to appear together with [+accusative = what]
3. (transitive) to juxtapose, compare [+accusative = what] [+ بِ‎ (object) = wherewith]

   Synonym: وَازَنَ‎ (wāzana)

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “قارن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 435
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “قارن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1020–1021

• قارین‎ (karın)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kạrïn (“belly, abdomen”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰺𐰣‎ (qr¹n¹ /qarïn/), Azerbaijani qarın, Bashkir ҡарын (qarın), Chuvash хырӑм (hyrăm), Kazakh қарын (qaryn), Kyrgyz карын (karın), Tatar qarın, Turkmen garyn and Uzbek qorin.

قارن • (karn, karın)

1. belly, abdomen, the part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis

   Synonyms: بطن‎ (batın), شكم‎ (şikem)

2. (colloquial) stomach, the organ in the body that stores food

   Synonyms: قورساق‎ (kursak), معده‎ (mi'de)

3. (colloquial) womb, the organ in which the young are conceived

   Synonym: رحم‎ (rahim)

4. (by extension) the part of anything which resembles the human belly
5. hull, the round and protuberant frame of a vessel or ship

• Turkish: karın

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “karın”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2435
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قارن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 925
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Venter”, 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 1731
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قارن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3581
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “karın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قارن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1414

Ultimately from Parthian 𐭊𐭓𐭍𐭉‎ (krny /Kārēn/), whence also Old Armenian Կարէն (Karēn).

قارن • (qâran)

1. (Iranian mythology) Qaran, an Iranian paladin, a character in Shahnameh
2. Karen, a Parthian feudal family

• قارنوند‎ (qârenvand)

• House of Karen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Gignoux, Philippe (1972) Glossaire des Inscriptions Pehlevies et Parthes [Glossary of Pahlavi and Parthians Inscriptions] (Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Supplementary Series; 1) (in French), London: Lund Humphries, page 55a
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1944), “Կարէն”, in Hayocʿ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʿyunner; 24) (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 613–614

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَارَنَ‎ (qārana).

• IPA^(key): /qaː.ran/, [ˈqɑː.rˤɑn]

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قارن • (qāran) (form III, present بقارن‎ (biqāren))

1. to compare