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))

  1. scene

Descendants
  • Turkish: sahne
  • → Azerbaijani: səhnə
  • → Bashkir: сәхнә (səxnə)
  • → 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 (1899–1901) “صحنه”, in قاموس تركی [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
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  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [säɦ.nǽ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sɑː.nǽ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sɔː.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading? sahna
Dari reading? sahna
Iranian reading? sahne
Tajik reading? sahna

Noun
Dari صحنه
Iranian Persian
Tajik саҳна

صحنه • (sahne)

  1. (film, theater) scene
  2. (theater) stage
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