آسمان

• آزمان (ázmán)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćmā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō. Akin to Persian آسمان (âsmân), Sanskrit अश्मन् (áśman).

آسمان • (ásmán)

1. sky

Borrowed from Classical Persian آسْمَان (āsmān).

آسمان • (ʾāsmān /āsmān/)

1. sky, heavens, firmament

   Synonyms: کوک (kwk /⁠kök⁠/), فلک (flk /⁠fäläk⁠/), سما (smā /⁠sämā⁠/)

   کوک آسمان ― kwk ʾāsmān /kök āsmān/ ― blue sky

• Uyghur: ئاسمان (asman)
• Uzbek: osmon

• 御製五體清文鑑 / han -i araha sunja hacin hergen kamciha manju gisun -i buleku bithe [Pentaglot Dictionary] (overall work in Manchu, Classical Tibetan, Classical Mongolian, Chagatai, and Mandarin), Beijing, (Can we date this quote?), page 1
• Schluessel, Eric (2018), “آسمان”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[1], Michigan Publishing, page 108

Borrowed from Urdu آسمان (āsmān), from Persian آسمان.

آسمان (āsmān)

1. sky

Borrowed from Urdu آسْمَان (āsmān).

• Tone class: H(L)
• IPA^(key): /áːsmáːn/

آسمان (āsmān) m

1. sky

• Baart, Joan L. G. (1997), “āsmān”, in The sounds and tones of Kalam Kohistani: with wordlist and texts (Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan; 1)‎^[2], National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University; Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 77

آسمان (âsmân, âsimân) (definite accusative آسِمانؽ or آسمانئ, plural آسِمانلار or آسمانلار)

1. Arabic spelling of âsmân, âsimân (“sky”)

Borrowed from Urdu آسْمَان (āsmān).

آسمان (asmán)

1. sky

• Elena Bashir; Maula Nigah; Rahmat Karim Baig (2022), “آسمان”, in A digital Khowar-English dictionary with audio‎^[3], second edition, Chicago, I.L.: South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago, archived from the original on 19 January 2023.

Borrowed from Classical Persian آسْمَان (āsmān).

آسمان • (āsmān, āsümān, āsimān)

1. sky, heavens, firmament

   Synonyms: كوك (gök), سما (sema), فلك (felek)

• Azerbaijani: asiman
• Ottoman Turkish: آسمان (asman)
  • Turkish: asuman

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آسمان, from Classical Persian آسْمَان (āsmān)

آسمان • (asman)

1. sky, heavens, firmament

   Synonyms: كوك (gök), سما (sema), فلك (felek)

• Turkish: asuman

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آسمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 114
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “asman”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “asuman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Borrowed from Classical Persian آسْمَان (āsmān).

آسْمَان (āsmān) m

1. sky

• آسمون (âsemun) (colloquial Tehrani)

Inherited 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. Cognate with Sanskrit अश्मन् (áśman).

Readings
Classical reading?	āsmān, āsimān
Dari reading?	āsmān, āsimān
Iranian reading?	âsmân, âsemân
Tajik reading?	osmon, osimon

• Audio (Iran):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

آسمان • (āsmān / âsmân) (plural آسمان‌ها (āsmān-hā / âsmân-hâ), Tajik spelling осмон)

1. 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.

2. (literary) heaven

   Synonym: بهشت (behešt)

• آسمانرنگ (âsmânrang)
• آسمانگون (âsmângun)
• آسمانی (âsmâni)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آسْمَان (āsmān).

آسمان • (āsmān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਆਸਮਾਨ)

1. sky

• آکاش (ākāś), گگن (gagan)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آسْمَان (āsmān).

• IPA^(key): /aːsmaːnʊ/, [aːsmaːn]

آسْمانُ • (āsmānu) m (Devanagari आस्मानु)

1. sky

   Synonyms: آڪاس (ākāsu), اُڀُ (ubhu), گَگَنُ (gaganu)

2. heaven

• آسْمَاں (āsmā̃) — poetic

Borrowed from Classical Persian آسْمَان (āsmān). First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi آسمان (āsman /⁠āsmān⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːs.mɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: آس‧مان

آسْمَان • (āsmān) m (Hindi spelling आसमान)

1. sky

   Synonyms: فَلَک (falak), آکاش (ākāś)

2. heaven, skies

   Synonyms: بَہِشْت (bahiśt), جَنَّت (jannat), فِرْدَوس (firdaus), سْوَرْگ (svarg)

3. (Islamic cosmology) celestial sphere, firmament; one of the seven heavens

• آسْمَانی (āsmānī, “heavenly”)

• “آسمان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “آسمان”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

Borrowed from Urdu آسْمَان (āsmān).

آسمان (āsmān)

1. sky