لگن

Borrowed from Persian لگن (lagan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.ɡan/

لَگَن • (lagan) m (plural لْگُونِة (lgūne))

1. alternative form of لَكَن (lakan, “washbasin”)
   • 2016, تعلم اللهجة البيروتية (taʕallam al-lahja l-bayrūtiyya) [Learn the Beiruti Dialect] (عكيف وعفيف (ʕakīf wa ʕafīf, “Akeef and Afeef”))‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 March 2023:

     عكيف: رُزْقالله على إيّام اللَّبِن باللَّگِن. ايه والله
     عفيف: ايه والله... رُزقالله... لبِن باللَّگِن

     ʕakīf: ruzʔ̣aḷḷa ʕala ʔiyyēm l-labin bi l-lagin. ʔē waḷḷa
     ʕafīf: ʔē waḷḷa... ruzʔ̣aḷḷa... labin bi l-lagin

     Akeef: God bless the good old days of yogurt in the basin. By God
     Afeef: Yeah, by God... those good old days... yogurt in the basin

     These characters are speaking in the traditional Old Beiruti dialect, which features an emphatic ق (/⁠ʔ̣⁠/), pausal raising of final ـَا (-a) to ـِي (-e), and raising of words on patterns like فَعَل (CaCaC) to فَعِل (CaCiC, with [i]) — notice لَگِن (lagin) instead of لَگَن (lagan).

• لگان (lagân), لکن (lakan)

Ultimately from Ancient Greek λεκᾰ́νη (lekắnē).

لگن • (lagan) (plural لگن‌ها (lagan-hā / lagan-hâ), Tajik spelling лаган)

1. washbasin
2. pelvis

• → Azerbaijani: ləyən
• → Bashkir: ләғән (ləğən)
• → Chagatai: لَگَن (lägän)
  • Uyghur: لېگەن (lëgen), لەگەن (legen)
  • Uzbek: lagan
• → Kyrgyz: илеген (ilegen)
• → Middle Armenian: լական (lakan)
  • Armenian: լագան (lagan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لَگَن (leğen)
  • Gagauz: leen
  • Turkish: leğen, leğın, lehen, len, lan
  • → Albanian: legen
  • → Armenian: լէհէն (lēhēn), լէյէն (lēyēn), լէկէն (lēkēn)
  • → Aromanian: liyeni, liyene, lieni, liene, liyen, lãyin, lãyini, lãyine, lãghin, lãghini, lãghine, ileni, ilene
  • → Bulgarian: леге́н (legén), лее́н (leén), лие́н (lién), леи́н (leín), лии́н (liín), лехи́н (lehín)
  • → Macedonian: леѓен (leǵen)
  • → Romanian: lighean
  • → Serbo-Croatian: lèđen / лѐђен
• → Pashto: لګن (lagán)
• → Tatar: ләгән (lägän)
• → Turkmen: legen

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “لگن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “لگن”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1095b

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit लग्न (lagna).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lə.ɡən/
• Rhymes: -ən

لَگَن • (lagan) m (Hindi spelling लगन) (rare)

1. love, affinity
2. time
   • 1989, پْروفیسَر عَزِیز اَحْمَد [profesar 'azīz ahmad], بَرِّ صَغِیر میں اِسْلامی کَلْچَر [barr-i saġīr mẽ islāmī kalcar, Islamic Culture in the Indian Subcontinent]‎^[3], page 243:

     مُسَلْمان، ہِنْدُوون کے ساتھ دُرْگاپُوجا میں شَرِیک ہوتے تہے اَور شادی بْیاہ وَغَیرَہ کے مَوقَع پَر بَرَہْمَنوں سے شُبھ لَگَن اَور سَعدِ ساعَت دَریافْت کِیا کَرتے تھے.

     musalmān, hinduvon ke sāth durgāpūjā mẽ śarīk hote the aur śādī byāh vaġaira ke mauqa' par barahmanõ se śubh lagan aur sa'd-i sā'at daryāft kiyā karte the.

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3. (figurative) marriage

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “لگن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1049
• Platts, John T. (1884), “لگن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 962
• “لگن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• “لگن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.