زانو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (zânu, “knee”).

Noun

زانو • (zanu)

knee, the joint between the thigh and the shank
Synonyms: دیز (diz), ركبه (rükbe)

Descendants

Turkish: zanu

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zanu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5434
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بادم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 638
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Genu”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 646
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زانو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2419
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زانو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1002

Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *jā́nu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́nu, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognate with Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu), Latin genū, English knee.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [zɑː.ˈnuː]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zɑː.núː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zɑː.núː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zɔː.nú]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zɒː.núː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zɔ.nú]

Readings
Classical reading^?	zānū
Dari reading^?	zānū
Iranian reading^?	zânu
Tajik reading^?	zonu

Noun


Iranian Persian	زانو
Dari	زانو
Tajik	зону

زانو • (zânu) (plural زانوها (zânu-hâ))

(anatomy) knee

Further reading

زانو on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa

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