# دندان
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دندان (dandân, “tooth”), from Middle Persian 𐫅𐫗𐫅𐫀𐫗 (dndʾn /⁠dandān⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hdántā (“tooth”).

### Noun

دندان • (dendân) (definite accusative دندانی (dendânı), plural دندانلر (dendânlar))
* tooth, a hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of humans and many animals
    Synonyms: دیش (diş), سن (senn)
* serrature, a notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything

#### Derived terms

* دندان مزد (dendân müzd, “exaction”)
* دندانه (dendâne, “anything shaped like a tooth”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: dendan

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dendan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1147
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “dendân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 207
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دندان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 582
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dens”, 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 351
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دندان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2146
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دندان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 916

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* دندون (dandun) (colloquial Tehrani)
* دند (dand) (clipped)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dntʾn'), 𐫅𐫗𐫅𐫀𐫗 (dndʾn /⁠dandān⁠/), from Old Persian *dantā, from Proto-Iranian *Hdántā (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hdántā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dént-ō ~ *h₃dn̥t-nés, from *h₃dent- (“tooth”) +‎ *-ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [dan.dɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪än̪.d̪ɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪än̪.d̪ɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪än̪.d̪ɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪än̪.d̪ɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪æn̪.d̪ɒːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪æn̪.d̪ɒːn]
** (Tehrani) IPA: [d̪æn̪.d̪uːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪än̪.d̪ɔn]
* (Hamdan) IPA: /dendɒːn/
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

| Dari | دندان |
| Iranian Persian | دندان |
| Tajik | дандон |
دندان • (dandân) (plural دندان‌ها (dandân-hâ))
* tooth
* purging croton (Croton tiglium)

#### Related terms

* دندانی (dandâni)
* دندان‌پزشک (dandân-pezešk)
* داکتر دندان (dāktar-i dandān)
* دندان‌پزشکی (dandân-pezeški)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: দান্দান (dandan)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: दन्दान (dandān)
    Urdu: دندان (dandān)
* → Old Armenian: դանդան (dandan)

### References

* ↑ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 329

### Further reading

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دندان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Vullers, Johann August (1855) “دندان”, 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 (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 909a–910a

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دندان (dandān). Doublet of دانت (dā̃t).

### Noun

دندان • (dandān) m (Hindi spelling दन्दान)
* tooth

#### Synonyms

* دانت (dā̃t)