دژن

From Parthian djn (dažn, “hot, spicy”), from the Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-. Akin to Old Armenian դաժան (dažan); an Iranian borrowing.

دژن • (dežan)

1. hot, spicy
2. sharp, pungent

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “دژن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), “djn”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols