زمان

With the alternative form زَمَن‎ (zaman) an old loan, becoming productive in the root ز م ن‎ (z-m-n), perhaps directly borrowed from or from a close Aramaic relative to Imperial Aramaic 𐡆𐡌𐡍‎ (zmn), 𐡆𐡌𐡀𐡍‎ (zmʾn), borrowed from a late pronunciation of the religiously relevant Old Persian *jamānā (“time”), reconstructible for Proto-Iranian *ǰámaHnaH, of a native derivation type from Proto-Indo-European.

• IPA^(key): /za.maːn/

زَمَان • (zamān) m (plural أَزْمِنَة‎ (ʔazmina))

1. (uncountable and countable) time

   Synonym: زَمَن‎ (zaman)

   Coordinate term: مَكَان‎ (makān)

2. age (A particular period of time in history)
3. season

   ‏أَزْمِنَةُ ٱلسَّنَةِ هِيَ: ٱلْخَرِيفُ وَٱلشِّتَاءُ وَٱلرَّبِيعُ وَٱلصَّيْفُ‎

   ʔazminatu s-sanati hiya: l-ḵarīfu waš-šitāʔu war-rabīʕu waṣ-ṣayfu

   The seasons of the year are: autumn, winter, spring and summer.

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• زَمَانِيّ‎ (zamāniyy)
• زَمَكَان‎ (zamakān)

• Maltese: żmien

• Freytag, Georg (1833), “زمان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 256
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “زمن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 444

From Proto-Iranian *hižwáH (compare Persian زوان‎ (zavân)/زبان‎ (zabân), Pashto ژبه‎ (žəba), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬰𐬎𐬎𐬁‎ (hizuuā)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáH (compare Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā), Hindi जीभ (jībh)), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (compare Old Prussian insuwis, Russian язы́к (jazýk), French langue, English tongue).

• IPA^(key): /zmaːn/
• Hyphenation: ز‧مان

زمان (ziman)

1. tongue
2. language

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زمان (zamān)

1. time, period, era
   • 2019, الكتاب المقدس بالعربي الدارجي هنا تشاد [The Bible in Chadian Arabic], N'Djamena: Alliance biblique du Tchad, أعمال الرُسُل [Acts] 15:18, page 15:

     ‏الْمَعْرُوف منِ زَمَان‎‎

     [he has made these things] known from the earliest times.

2. long ago
3. used to form the past tense of the copula: was, were

   ‏هو زمان كريم‎

   hū zamān karīm.

   he was generous.

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زَمان (zamân) (definite accusative زَمانؽ‎, plural زَمانلار‎)

1. Arabic spelling of zamân (“time”)

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• IPA^(key): /zaman/
• Rhymes: -aman, -man, -an

زمان (Rumi spelling zaman, plural زمان٢‎)

1. age (particular period of time in history)

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭣𐭭𐭠‎ (ODNA /⁠zamān⁠/), 𐭦𐭬𐭠𐭭𐭩‎ (ẕmʾn' /⁠zamān⁠/), 𐭦𐭬𐭭𐭩‎ (zmn' /⁠zamān⁠/), 𐫉𐫖𐫀𐫗‎ (zmʾn /⁠zamān⁠/), from Old Persian *jamānā; see there for more.

• Rhymes: -ân

زمان • (zamân) (plural زمان‌ها‎ (zamân-hâ) or ازمنه‎ (azmâne))

1. time, epoch, period, age, season (a broad time period; not the precise time on a clock)

   ‏در زمان شاه‎ ― dar zamân-e šâh ― in the time of the Shah

   ‏در زمان جنگ‎ ― dar zamân-e jang ― in the time of the war

   ‏در این زمان‎‎ ― dar in zamân ― in this period, in these days

   1. (physics) time
   2. (grammar) tense

      ‏زمان گذشته‎ ― zamân-e gozašte ― past tense

   3. (figurative) death

      Synonym: مرگ‎ (marg)

• → Armenian: զաման (zaman)
• → Azerbaijani: zaman
• → Bashkir: заман (zaman)
• → Gilaki: [script needed] (zəmån)
• → Kazakh: заман (zaman)
• → Kermanic:

  Qohrudi: zamān

• → Khalaj: zamân
• → Central Kurdish: زه‌مان‎ (zeman)
• → Kyrgyz: заман (zaman)
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  • Indonesian: zaman, jaman
• → Ossetian: за́ман (záman)
• → Pashto: زمانه‎ (zamâna)
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  • → Turkish: zaman
  • → Greek: ζαμάνι (zamáni)
  • → Albanian: zaman
  • → Serbo-Croatian: заман
• → Tatar: заман (zaman)
• → Waigali: zëmën

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• IPA^(key): /za.maːn/, [zaˈmæːn], [zaˈmaːn]

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زمان • (zamān) m (plural زمانات‎ (zamānāt))

1. time, period, era (in the past)

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2. (definite) long ago

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زمان • (zamān)

1. (in a) long time

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• وقت‎ (waʔt, “time”)
• مرّة‎ (marra, “time, instance”)