ارزان

See also: ارزاں‎

Baluchi

Adjective

ارزان • (arzán)

  1. cheap
  2. inexpensive

Khalaj

Adjective

اَرزان (arzân, ərzân)

  1. Arabic spelling of arzân, ərzân (“cheap”)

Pashto

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ar.zɑn/

Adjective

ارزان • (arzân)

  1. cheap

Declension
declension of ارزان
masculine feminine
singular plural singular plural
direct ارزان
(arzân)		 ارزان
(arzân)		 ارزانه‎
(arzâna)		 ارزانې‎
(arzâne)
oblique ارزان
(arzân)		 ارزانو‎
(arzâno)		 ارزانې‎
(arzâne)		 ارزانو‎
(arzâno)
vocative ارزانه‎
(arzâna)		 ارزانو‎
(arzâno)		 ارزانې‎
(arzâne)		 ارزانو‎
(arzâno)

See also

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlcʾn /arzān/), 𐫀𐫡𐫉𐫀𐫗‎ (ʾrzʾn /arzān/, “valuable, worthy”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlc /arz/, “worth, value”) + [Book Pahlavi needed] (-ʾn /-ān/). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫋𐫀𐫗‎ (ʾrjʾn /aržān/, “worthy”), Talysh ارژون‎ (erjon), Northern Kurdish erzan and the following Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian արժան (aržan, “worthy; cheap”), Classical Syriac ܐܪܙܢ‎ (ʾarzān, “cheap”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /aɾˈzɔn/

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Adjective
Dari ارزان
Iranian Persian
Tajik арзон (arzon)

ارزان • (arzân), comparative ارزان‌تَر‎ (arzân-tar), superlative ارزان‌تَرین‎ (arzân-tarin)

  1. cheap, inexpensive
    • c. 1260, Rumi, “3:1001”, in The Masnavi:
      ‏خویشتن را آدمی ارزان فروخت، بود اطلس خویش بر دلقی بدوخت‎
      xištan-râ âdami arzân foruxt, bud atlas xiš bar dâlqi beduxt
      man sold himself for cheap; he was satin, but sewed himself to a dervish's rags.
    Antonym: گران‎ (gerân, “expensive”)

Derived terms
  • ارزانی‎ (arzâni)
  • ارزان‌فروش‎ (arzân-foruš)
  • حاجی‌ارزونی‎ (hâji-'arzuni)

Descendants

Further reading
  • Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, pages 52, 53
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “arzān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 296

Ushojo

Etymology

From Persian ارزان‎ (arzân).

Noun

اَرزان (arzān)

  1. cheap
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