صحنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Coined by Ottoman dictionarian Sami Frashëri in 1870 as a phono-semantic matching of French scène (from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene”)), using صحن‎ (sahn) +‎ ـه‎ (-e), the first part being derived from Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn).

Noun

صحنه • (sahne) (definite accusative صحنه‌یی‎ (sahneyi), plural صحنه‌لر‎ (sahneler))

scene

Descendants

Turkish: sahne
→ Azerbaijani: səhnə
→ Bashkir: сәхнә (säxnä)
→ Kazakh: сахна (saxna)
→ Kyrgyz: сахна (sahna)
→ Persian: صحنه‎ (sahne)
- Tajik: саҳна (sahna)
- → Pashto: صحنه‎ (sahná)
→ Tatar: сәхнә (säxnä)
→ Turkmen: sahna
→ Uyghur: سەھنە‎ (sehne)
→ Uzbek: sahna

References

Şemseddin Sâmi (1901), “صحنه”, in Kamus-ı Türki (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 819

Persian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صحنه‎ (sahne, “scene”), from Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn, “yard, field”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /sahˈna/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /sahˈna/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /sæhˈne/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /sahˈna/

Noun

Iranian Persian	صحنه
Dari	صحنه
Tajik	саҳна (sahna)

صحنه • (sahne)

(film, theater) scene
(theater) stage

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