ارزان

ارزان • (arzán)

1. cheap
2. inexpensive

اَرزان (arzân or ərzân)

1. Arabic spelling of arzân, ərzân (“cheap”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَرْزَان (arzān, “cheap”).

• IPA^(key): /ar.zɑn/, [äɾ.zɑ́n]

ارزان • (arzān)

1. cheap

• ارزانه (arzāna)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlcʾn /⁠arzān⁠/), 𐫀𐫡𐫉𐫀𐫗 (ʾrzʾn /⁠arzān⁠/, “valuable, worthy”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlc /⁠arz⁠/, “worth, value”) + [Book Pahlavi needed] (-ʾn /⁠-ān⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Hárǰ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hárǰʰ- (“to be worth”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫋𐫀𐫗 (ʾrjʾn /⁠aržān⁠/, “worthy”), Talysh ارژون (erjon), Northern Kurdish erzan and the following Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian արժան (aržan, “worthy; cheap”), Classical Syriac ܐܪܙܢ (ʾarzān, “cheap”).

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ارزان • (arzân) (comparative ارزان‌تَر, superlative ارزان‌تَرین)

1. cheap, inexpensive

   Antonym: گران (gerân, “expensive”)

   • c. 1260, Rumi, “3:1001”, in The Masnavi:

     خویشتن را آدمی ارزان فروخت، بود اطلس خویش بر دلقی بدوخت

     xwēštan-rā ādamē arzân furōxt, būd atlas xwēš bar dalqē bidōxt

     man sold himself for cheap; he was satin, but sewed himself to a dervish's rags.

• ارزانی (arzâni)
• ارزان‌فروش (arzân-foruš)
• حاجی‌ارزونی (hâji-'arzuni)

• ارزیدن (arzidan, “to cost, to be worth”)
• ـان (-ân)

• → Baluchi: ارزان (arzán)
• → Bashkir: арзан (arzan)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अरज़ान (arzān), अर्ज़ान (arzān), अरज़ाँ (arzā̃), अर्ज़ां (arzā̃)

  Urdu: ارزاں (arzā̃), ارزان (arzān)

• → Kazakh: арзан (arzan)
• → Khalaj: arzân
• → Kyrgyz: арзан (arzan)
• → Pashto: ارزان (arzān)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਅਰਜ਼ਾਨ (arzān), ਅਰਜ਼ਾਂ (arzā̃)

  Shahmukhi script: ارزاں (arzā̃), ارزان (arzān)

• → Tatar: арзан (arzan)
• → Turkmen: arzan
• → Ushojo: ارزان (arzān)
• → Uyghur: ئەرزان (erzan)
• → Uzbek: arzon

• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, pages 52, 53
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “arzān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999), The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 296
• Cheung, Johnny (2007), Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 166-167

From Persian ارزان (arzân).

اَرزان (arzān)

1. cheap