اژدها

اژدها (əjdəha) (definite accusative اژدهانی (əjdəhanı), plural اژدهالار (əjdəhalar))

1. Arabic spelling of əjdaha (“dragon”)

• اژدرها (ejderha), اژدر (ejder)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَژْدِهَا (aždihā).

اژدها • (ejdeha)

1. dragon

• Turkish: ejderha
• → Bulgarian: ажде́р (aždér)
• → Macedonian: аждер (ažder), аждаја (aždaja)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ажда̀ха, ажда̀ја

  Latin script: aždàha, aždàja

• اژدهاک (aždahāk / aždahâk), اژدرها (aždirhā / ežderhâ), اژدر (aždar)

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾcydhʾk' /⁠az(i)dahāg⁠/) / Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫀𐫉𐫅𐫍𐫀𐫃 (ʾzdhʾg /⁠azdahāg⁠/), from Avestan 𐬀𐬲𐬌⸱𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬁𐬐𐬀 (aži.dahāka, “Azhi Dahaka”), name of a mythical serpent in Zoroastrianism, from 𐬀𐬲𐬌 (aži, “snake; dragon”), from Proto-Iranian *Háǰiš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háǰʰiš, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis, *h₃égʷʰis (“snake”). Compare Manichaean Parthian 𐫀𐫋𐫅𐫍𐫀𐫃 (ʾjdhʾg /⁠aždahāg⁠/) and Old Armenian Աժդահակ (Aždahak).This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

اژدها • (aždahā / aždahâ, eždehâ) (plural اژدهایان (aždahāyān / aždahâyân, eždehâyân), or (obsolete) اژادر (ažādur / ažâdor), Tajik spelling аждаҳо)

1. dragon

• → Armenian: աժդահա (aždaha)
• → Azerbaijani: əjdəha, əjdaha
• → Bashkir: аждаһа (ajdaha)
• → Bengali: আজদাহা (ajdaha)
• → Chagatai: اژدرها (ʾždrhā /⁠äždärhā⁠/), اژدها (ʾždhā /⁠äždähā⁠/)
  • Uyghur: ئەجدىھار (ejdihar)
  • Uzbek:

    Latin script: ajdarho, ajdar

    Afghan Uzbek: اَژْدَهَا (azhdaho), اَژْدَرْهَا (azhdarho)

• → Central Kurdish: ئەژدەھا (ejdeha)
• → Gilaki: اجدیها (ajdīhā)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अज़दहा (azadhā), अजदहा (ajdahā) (nuqtaless)

  Urdu: اَژْدَہا (aźdahā)

• → Kazakh: айдаһар (aidahar), аждаһа (ajdaha)
• → Kyrgyz: ажыдаар (ajıdaar)
• → Mazanderani: ایژدیها (īždīhā)
• → Northern Kurdish: ejdeha
• → Ottoman Turkish: اژدها (ejdeha), اژدرها (ejderha), اژدر (ejder)
  • Turkish: ejderha
  • → Bulgarian: ажде́р (aždér)
  • → Macedonian: аждер (ažder), аждаја (aždaja)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ажда̀ха, ажда̀ја

    Latin script: aždàha, aždàja

• → Tatar: аждаһа (ajdaha)
• → Turkmen: aždarha, aždar

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “اژدها”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اژدها”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul