صحنه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

սահնէ (sahne) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Coined by Ottoman dictionarian Sami Frashëri in 1870 as a phono-semantic matching of French scène (from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene”)), using صحن (sahn) +‎ ـه (-e), the first part being derived from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

Noun

صحنه • (sahne) (definite accusative صحنه‌یی (sahneyi), plural صحنه‌لر (sahneler))

scene

Descendants

Turkish: sahne
→ Azerbaijani: səhnə
→ Bashkir: сәхнә (səxnə)
→ Kazakh: сахна (saxna)
→ Kyrgyz: сахна (sahna)
→ Persian: صحنه (sahne)
- Tajik: саҳна (sahna)
- → Pashto: صحنه (sahná)
→ Tatar: сәхнә (säxnä)
→ Turkmen: sahna
→ Uyghur: سەھنە (sehne)
→ Uzbek: sahna

References

Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901), “صحنه”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 819

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صحنه (sahne, “scene”), from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn, “yard, field”).

Pronunciation

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɦ.ná]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɑː.ná]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sɔː.ná]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæɦ.né]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säɦ.ná]

Readings
Dari reading^?	sahna
Iranian reading^?	sahne
Tajik reading^?	sahna

Audio (Iran): (file)

Noun

صحنه • (sahna / sahne) (Tajik spelling саҳна)

(film, theater) scene
(theater) stage

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “صحنه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “صحنه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
“صحنه”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2025