حیوان

حَیوان (həyvân) (definite accusative حَیوانؽ‎, plural حَیوانلار‎)

1. Arabic spelling of həyvân (“animal”)

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَوَان‎ (ḥayawān), probably through Persian حیوان‎ (heyvân).

حیوان • (hayvan) (plural حیوانات‎ (hayvanat))

1. animal, any multicellular organism in the clade Animalia

   Synonym: جانور‎ (canavar)

2. (figuratively) brute, beast, a person who behaves in a uncivilized manner
3. beast of burden, draught animal, any animal that carries or pulls a load

• Turkish: hayvan
• → Albanian: hajvan
• → Greek: χαϊβάνι (chaïváni)
• → Macedonian: ајван (ajvan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: hajvan / хајван

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hayvan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1917
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “حیوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 524
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Animal”, 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 63
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “حیوان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1828
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hayvan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “حیوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 817

From Arabic حَيَوَان‎ (ḥayawān).

• Rhymes: -ân

حیوان • (heyvân) (plural حیوانات‎ (heyvânât) or حیوانان‎ (heyvânân))

1. animal

   Synonym: جانور‎ (jânvar)

   ‏حیوان وحشی‎ ― heyvân-e vahši ― wild animal

2. (offensive) beast, brute; person who behaves wildly
3. (literary) life, vital force; (in particular) eternal life

   Synonym: حیات‎ (hayât)

   ‏آب حیوان‎ ― âb-e heyvân ― water of life

Borrowed from Persian حیوان‎ (heyvân), from Arabic حَيَوَان‎ (ḥayawān).

حیوان • (haivān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਹੈਵਾਨ)

1. animal
2. beast

• جانور‎ (jānvar)

Borrowed from Persian حیوان‎ (heyvân), from Arabic حَيَوَان‎ (ḥayawān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɛː.ʋɑːn/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ɦɛː.ʋɑːn/

حیوان • (haivān) m (Hindi spelling हैवान)

1. beast
2. animal

• جانور‎ (jānvar)

• حیوانی‎ (haivānī)
• حیوانیت‎ (haivāniyat, “bestiality”)
• حیوانیات‎ (haivāniyāt, “zoology”)