سامان

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian sʾmʾn' (sāmān, “limit, boundary”), related to سَامَه (sāma, “condition, bet, asylum”). Cognate with Mazanderani سامون (sāmūn, “land, border”). Akin to Old Armenian սահման (sahman), an Iranian borrowing. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “further etymology of the term? seems obscure - is there any scholarship on this word's etymology?”)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sāmān
Dari reading? sāmān
Iranian reading? sâmân
Tajik reading? somon

Noun

سامان • (sāmān / sâmân) (Tajik spelling сомон)

  1. boundary, limit, place where any sign or mark is placed to separate one field from another, a balk
  2. side, quarter
  3. city, town
  4. home
  5. household furniture, baggage

Derived terms

  • سامان دادن (sāmān dādan / sâmân dâdan)
  • سر و سامان (sar u sāmān / sar o sâmân)

Descendants

Proper noun

سامان • (sāmān / sâmân) (Tajik spelling Сомон)

  1. a male given name, Saman, from Middle Persian

References

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَامَان (sāmān). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi ساماں (samaṉ).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sɑː.mɑːn/, (colloquial) [sə.mɑːn]
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

سامان • (sāmān) m (Hindi spelling सामान) (collectively)

  1. luggage, baggage
  2. goods, chattels
  3. equipment, apparatus
  4. provisions, material
  5. (informal) belongings, things, stuff

References

  1. ^ “سامان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

  • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “سامان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 739
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “سامان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 627
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “سامان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 365
  • “سامان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • John Shakespear (1834), “سامان”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1030

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sāman.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish saman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑmɑn/

Noun

سامان • (saman) (plural سامانلار (samanlar))

  1. straw, hay

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “sama:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 828
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*siāpan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992), An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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