# انجمن
## Arabic
### Verb

اُنْجُمْنَ • (unjumna) (form I) /un.d͡ʒum.na/
* second-person feminine plural imperative of نَجَمَ (najama)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian انجمن (anjoman, “meeting, assembly”), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭭𐭰𐭬𐭭 (hanjaman, “congregation, assembly, community”), itself from Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀 (haṇjamana, “assembly”).

### Noun

انجمن • (encümen) (definite accusative انجمنی (encümeni), plural انجمنلر (encümenler))
* society, association, club, a group of people who meet to engage in a common interest
    Synonym: جمعیت (cemʼiyet)
* convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose
    Synonyms: اجتماع (ictimaʼ), جمعیت (cemʼiyet), درنك (dernek), مجلس (meclis)
* commission, committee, a group of people convened for the accomplishment of a specific task

#### Derived terms

* انجمن دانش (encümen-i daniş, “Academy of Sciences”)
* انجمنكاه (encümengâh, “place of assembly”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: encümen

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “encümen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1442
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “encümen”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 264
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انجمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 154
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Collegium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 201
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انجمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 446
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “encümen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انجمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 213

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭭𐭰𐭬𐭭 (hanjaman, “congregation, assembly, community”), from Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀 (haṇjamana, “assembly”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [(ʔ)an.d͡ʒu.ˈman]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [(ʔ)än.d͡ʒʊ.mǽn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [(ʔ)än.d͡ʒʊ.mǽn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [än.d͡ʒʊ.mǽn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [än.d͡ʒu.mǽn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [(ʔ)æn.d͡ʒo.mǽn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [(ʔ)än.d͡ʒu.mǽn]

### Noun

اَنْجُمَن • (anjoman) (plural انجمن‌ها (anjoman-hâ))
* meeting, assembly, consultation, forum, association
* (archaic, chiefly obsolete) society
* (Internet) forum

#### Inflection

Enclitic-attached forms of انجمن (anjoman) (Iranian Persian) :

#### Synonyms

* (forum): فروم (forum)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: əncümən
* → Bengali: আঞ্জুমান (anjuman)
* → Gujarati: અંજુમન (añjuman)
* → Ottoman Turkish: انجمن (encümen)
** Turkish: encümen

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian انجمن (anjuman, “meeting, assembly”). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi انجمن (anjuman).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ən.d͡ʒʊ.mən/
* Rhymes: -ən
* Hyphenation: اَنْ‧جُ‧مَنْ

### Noun

اَنْجُمَنْ • (anjuman) f (Hindi spelling अंजुमन)
* meeting, assembly, gathering
    Synonym: مَحْفِل (mahfil)
** 1981, “دل چیز کیا ہے آپ مری جان لیجئے”, in Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (lyrics), Mohammed Zahur Khayyam (music), Umrao Jaan, performed by Asha Bhosle:اس انجمن میں آپ کو آنا ہے بار بارis anjuman mẽ āp ko ānā hai bār bārYou will have to come again and again to this gathering
* society
    Synonyms: سَماج (samāj), مُعاشِرَہ (mu'āśira)

#### Declension

Declension of انجمن :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | اَنْجُمَنْ (anjuman) | اَنْجُمَنْیں (anjumanẽ) |
| oblique | اَنْجُمَنْ (anjuman) | اَنْجُمَنْوں (anjumanõ) |
| vocative | اَنْجُمَنْ (anjuman) | اَنْجُمَنْو (anjumano) |

### Further reading

* ↑ “انجمن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “انجمن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “انجمن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “انجمن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “اَنجُمن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 150