# آینه
## Khalaj
### Noun

آینه (ayna) (definite accusative آینه‌ݧ, plural آینه‌لار)
* Arabic spelling of ayna (“mirror”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* آیینه (ayina)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آیْنَه (āyna), variant of آیِینَه (āyīna, “mirror”).

### Noun

آینه • (ayna) (definite accusative آینه‌یی (aynayı), plural آینه‌لر (aynalar))
* mirror, looking-glass, a smooth surface that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it
    Synonyms: كوزكی (gözgü), مرآت (mirʾat)
* telescope, a monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy
    Synonym: دوربین (dürbün)
* theodolite, a surveying instrument, consisting of a small mounted telescope, used to measure angles
    Synonym: ته‌ئودولیت (teʼodolit)
* (nautical) quadrant or sextant, a navigational device used to determine latitude and longitude

#### Derived terms

* آینه جامی (ayna camı, “plate glass”)
* آینه صیری (ayna sırı, “tain, silvering”)
* آینه‌جی (aynacı, “maker or seller of mirrors”)
* آینه‌دار (aynadar, “servant in charge of the mirrors”)
* آینه‌لنمق (aynalanmak, “to become like a mirror”)
* آینه‌لو (aynalı, “furnished with mirrors”)
* طوپ آینه‌سی (top aynası, “part of a cannon”)
* كوكل آینه‌سی (göñül aynası, “mirror of the heart”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: ayna
* → Armenian: այնա (ayna)
* → Laz: აჲნა (ayna)

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 245
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayna1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 389
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آینه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 96a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 44
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Speculum”, 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 1581
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آینه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 616
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ayna”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آینه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 311

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔɑːj.na], [ʔɑː.ji.na]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑːj.nä], [ʔɑː.jɪ.nä]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑːj.nä], [ʔɑː.jɪ.nä]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔɑːj.nä], [ʔɑː.jɪ.nä]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔäj.nä], [ʔɔː.ji.nä]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔɒːj.ne], [ʔɒː.je.ne]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔɔi.nä]

### Noun

آینه • (âyne, âyene)
* Alternative form of آیینه.
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 2746:روی خوبان ز آینه زیبا شود / روی احسان از گدا پیدا شودroy-i-xûb-ân ze âyana zîbâ šawad / roy-i-ahsân az gadâ paydâ šawadThe face of the fair is made beautiful by the mirror, the face of Beneficence is made visible by the beggar.

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: આયના (āyanā)