جهان

جهان

1. Arabic spelling of cəhan

From Persian جهان‎ (jahân).

جهان • (cihan)

1. world
2. universe

• جهان‌نما‎ (cihan-numa)

• Turkish: cihan

جهان • (cihan)

1. a male given name, Jahan

• Turkish: Cihan

• گیهان‎ (geyhân) (archaic)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (gyhʾn' /gēhān/, “worldly creatures, world”), from plural genitive form of Proto-Iranian *gay-θā- (compare Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬉𐬚𐬁-‎ (gaēθā-, “world; creature”)), equivalent to Middle Persian [Term?] (gēh) +‎ [Term?] (-ān).

The original meaning of the word in Old Iranian and Middle Persian was (worldly) creatures, but the term in late Middle Persian and in Modern Persian came to mean ‘world’ in general.

Doublet of کیهان‎.

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

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒahɒːn/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæhɒːn/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒahɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ân

جهان • (jahân) (plural جهان‌ها‎ (jahân-hâ))

1. world
2. universe

• کیهان‎ (keyhân)

• → Azerbaijani: cahan
• → Armenian: ջիհան (ǰihan)
• → Bashkir: йыһан (yıhan)
• → Bengali: জাহান (jahan)
• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: جہان‎ (jahān)

• → Kazakh: жаһан (jahan)
• → Malay: johan
  • Indonesian: johan
• → Ottoman Turkish: جهان‎ (cihan)
  • Turkish: cihan
• → Punjabi: ਜਹਾਨ (jahāna)
• → Rohingya: jáhan
• → Turkmen: jahan, älem-jahan
• → Uzbek: jahon
• → Uyghur: جاھان‎ (jahan)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “gēhān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 36

جهان • (jahân)

1. a male or female given name, Jahan

• → Armenian: Ջիհան (J̌ihan), Ջահան (J̌ahan), Ջհան (J̌han)
• → Russian: Джаха́н (Džaxán) (via Turkic)
• → Ottoman Turkish: جهان‎ (Cihan)
  • Turkish: Cihan