آسان

آسان • (ásán)

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Probably from Hindustani آسَانْ‎ / आसान (āsān).

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آسان (âsân)

1. Arabic spelling of âsân (“easy”)

• آسون‎ (âsun) (colloquial)

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭮𐭠𐭭‎ (ʾsʾn /āsān/).

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• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ɑːˈsɑːn/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ɒːˈsɒːn/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɒːˈsɒːn/

• (Tehrani): IPA^(key): /ɒːˈsuːn/

• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ɔːˈsɔːn/

آسان • (âsân) (comparative آسان‌تَر‎ (âsân-tar), superlative آسان‌تَرین‎ (âsân-tarin))

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   ‏آیا فکر می‌کنید که کردی از فارسی آسان‌تر است؟‎‎ (literary)

   âyâ fekr mi-konid ke kordi az fârsi âsân--tar ast?

   Do you think Kurdish is easier than Persian?

   ‏فک می‌کنین که کردی از فارسی آسون‌تره؟‎‎ (colloquial)

   fek mi-konin ke kordi az fârsi âsun--tar-e?

   Do you think Kurdish is easier than Persian?

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 2947:

     ‏راههای صعب پایان برده‌ایم، ره بر اهل خویش آسان کرده‌ایم‎

     râh-hâ-ye sa'b pâyân borde-'im, rah bar ahl-e xiš âsân karde-'im.

     We have brought the hard ways to an end; we have made the way easy for our own people.

   • late 14th century, Xāja Shams-ud-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, “الا یا ایها الساقی‎ (Alā yā ayyoha-s-sāqī)”, in دیوان حافظ‎ [Divān of Ḥāfeẓ]:

     ‏الا یا ایها الساقی ادر کأسا و ناولها، که عشق آسان نمود اول ولی افتاد مشکل‌ها‎

     alâ yâ 'ayyoha-s-sâqi ader ka'san va nâvelhâ, ke 'ešq âsân nemûd avval vali 'oftâd moškelhâ

     ʼalā yā ʼayyuha-s-sāqī ʼadir kaʼsan wa-nāwilhā [Arabic: "Come, o wine-pourer! Circulate a cup and pass it"], since love seemed easy at first, but soon difficulties occurred.

   • c. 1650, Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ğanī Kašmīrī, Mufti Mudasir Farooqi & Nusrat Bazaz, transl., دیوان [Divān]:

     ‏دست از جان شستن آسان است در شب‌های هجر، می‌توان چون شمع خون خود به رنگ آب ریخت.‎‎

     dast az jân šostan âsân ast dar šab-hâ-ye hejr, mi-tavân čun šam' xun-e xod be rang-e âb rixt.

     Washing hands of life is easy in the nights of separation. Like the candle one can shed one's blood soundlessly.

   Synonyms: ساده‎ (sâde), راحت‎ (râhat), خوار‎ (xwâr), سهل‎ (sahl)

   Antonyms: سخت‎ (saxt), دشوار‎ (došvâr)

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Borrowed from Classical Persian آسان‎ (āsān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.sɑːn/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ɑː.sɑːn/
• Hyphenation: آ‧سَا‧نْ
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

آسَانْ • (āsān) (Hindi spelling आसान)

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• آسَانِی‎ (āsānī)

• → Kalami: آسان‎ (āsān)

• “آسان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “āsān”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 47
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آسان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 10
• “آسان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.