آسمان
Baluchi
Alternative forms
- آزمان (ázmán)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćmā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō. Akin to Persian آسمان (âsmân) and Sanskrit अश्मन् (aśman).
Khalaj
Noun
آسمان (âsmân, âsimân) (definite accusative آسِمانؽ or آسمانئ, plural آسِمانلار or آسمانلار)
Persian
Alternative forms
- آسمون (âsemun) (colloquial Tehrani)
Etymology
From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭮𐭬𐭠𐭭 (ʾsmʾn /āsmān/), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎶𐎠𐎴𐎶 (asmānam), from Proto-Iranian *Hácmā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćmā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔɑːs.(i).mɑːn]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɑːs.(ɪ).mɑːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔɑːs.(ɪ).mɑːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔɔːs.(i).mɔːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɒːs.(e).mɒːn]
- (Tehrani) IPA(key): [ʔɒːs.(e).muːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɔs.(i).mɔn]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | ās(i)mān |
Dari reading? | ās(i)mān |
Iranian reading? | âs(e)mân |
Tajik reading? | os(i)mon |
Audio (Iran) (file) - Rhymes: -ân
Noun
Dari | آسمان |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | осмон |
آسمان • (âsmân or âsemân) (plural آسمانها (âsmân-hâ, âsemân-hâ))
- sky
- آسمان ابری ― -âsmân-e abri ― cloudy sky
- آسمان آبی ― -âsmân-e âbi ― blue sky
- 1732—1733, Lāla Amānat Rāy, “جلوه ذات [Jelve-ye Zât]”, in Stefano Pellò, transl., Black Curls in a Mirror: The Eighteenth-Century Persian Kṛṣṇa of Lāla Amānat Rāy’s Jilwa-yi ẕāt and the Tongue of Bīdil, International Journal of Hindu Studies (2018) 22:
- به سطح آسمان انبوه اختر نمایان در طبق چون مشت گوهر
- be sath-e âsmân anbuh-e axtar nomâyân dar tabq čon mošt-e gowhar
- On the surface of the sky, a myriad of stars were showing themselves on a plate like a handful of pearls.
- (literary) heaven
- Synonym: بهشت (behešt)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: asiman
- → Bengali: আসমান (āsman)
- → Chagatai: آڛمان
- → Dungan: асмон (asmon) (perhaps via Chagatai)
- → Gujarati: આસમાન (āsamān)
- → Hindustani: āsmān
- → Kalami: آسمان (āsmān)
- → Kazakh: аспан (aspan) (perhaps via Chagatai)
- → Kermanic: آسمون (ā̊semūn, āsɛmūn)
- → Khalaj: âsmân
- → Kyrgyz: асмон (asmon) (perhaps via Chagatai)
- → Marathi: अस्मान (asmān)
- → Nepali: अस्मान (asmān)
- → Punjabi: āsmān
- → Rajasthani: असमाण (asmāṇ)
- → Sindhi: آسمان (āsmān)
- → Sivandi: āsemān
- → Turkmen: asman
- → Yagnobi: осмон (osmon)
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian آسمان (āsmān).
Sindhi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian آسمان (āsmān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɑsmɑnʊ]
Noun
آسمانُ • (āsmānu) ? (Devanagari आस्मानु)
Derived terms
- آسمانيِ (āsmānī, “heavenly, azure”)
Urdu
Alternative forms
- آسْمَاں (āsmāṉ) (poetic)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian آسمان (āsmān), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćmā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɑːs.mɑːn/
Audio (PK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːn
- Hyphenation: آس‧مان
Noun
آسْمَان • (āsmān) m (Hindi spelling आसमान)
Declension
Declension of آسمان | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | آسمان (āsmān) | آسمان (āsmān) |
oblique | آسمان (āsmān) | آسمانوں (āsmānō̃) |
vocative | آسمان (āsmān) | آسمانو (āsmānō) |
Further reading
- “آسمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “آسمان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آسمان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
Ushojo
Etymology
From Urdu آسمان (āsmān), ultimately from Classical Persian آسمان (āsmān)