اندلس

Persian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic الْأَنْدَلُس (al-ʔandalus).

    Pronunciation

     
    • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lʊ́s]
      • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lʊ́s]
      • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔän̪.d̪ä.lús]

    Readings
    Classical reading? andalus
    Dari reading? andalus
    Iranian reading? andalos
    Tajik reading? andalus

    Proper noun

    اندلس • (andalus / andalos) (Tajik spelling Андалус)

    1. Andalusia (a historical region and autonomous community in southern Spain, the most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain)
    2. (historical) al-Andalus, Islamic Iberia
      • c. 1250, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, “Ghazal 529”, in دیوان شمس تبریزی [Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī]‎[1]:
        آن کس که در مغرب بود یابد خورش از اندلس
        وان کس که در مشرق بود او نعمت هرمز خورد
        ān kas ki dar maġrib buwad yābad xwariš az andalus
        w-ān kas ki dar mašriq buwad ō ni'mat-i hurmuz xwarad
        He who is in the West finds sustenance from al-Andalus,
        And he who is in the East eats from the bounties of Hormuz.
        (Classical Persian transliteration)

    Further reading

    Urdu

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Classical Persian اَنْدَلُس (andalus), borrowed from Arabic الْأَنْدَلُس (al-ʔandalus).

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʊn.d̪ʊ.lʊs/
      • Rhymes: -ʊs
      • Hyphenation: اُنْ‧دُ‧لُس

      Proper noun

      اُنْدُلُس • (undulusm (Hindi spelling अुंदुलुस)

      1. (historical) al-Andalus, Iberian Peninsula
      2. Andalusia (a historical region and autonomous community in southern Spain, the most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain)

      References

      • اندلس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.