# اسد
## Chagatai
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad).

### Noun

اسد (äsäd)
* lion

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: ئەسەت (eset)
* Uzbek: asad

### Proper noun

اسد (äsäd)
* (astronomy) Leo

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: ئەسەت (eset)
* Uzbek: Asad

### Further reading

* Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “اسد”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 424

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad, “lion”).

### Noun

اسد • (esed)
* lion, any large felid of the species Panthera leo
    Synonyms: آرسلان (arslan), شیر (şir), غضنفر (gazanfer), هزبر (hizebr)
* (figuratively) lion, a strong, brave and valiant man

### Proper noun

اسد • (Esed)
* (astronomy) Leo, a constellation of the Zodiac
* (astrology) Leo, the zodiac sign for the Lion

#### Derived terms

* اسدی (esedi, “leonine”)
* اسدیه (esediye, “panther”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: esed

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “esed”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1480
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “esed”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 277
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 88
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Leo”, 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 934
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 211
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 108

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسَد (asad), Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad).

### Noun

اَسَد • (asád) m
* lion

### Proper noun

اَسَد • (asád) m
* (astronomy) Leo

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔa.ˈsað]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔä.sǽd̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔä.sǽd̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔä.sǽd̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔä.sǽd̪̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæ.sǽd̪̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔä.sǽd̪]

### Proper noun

| Dari | اسد |
| Iranian Persian | اسد |
| Tajik | Асад |
اسد • (asad)
* (astronomy) Leo
    Synonym: شیر

### Noun

| Dari | اسد |
| Iranian Persian | اسد |
| Tajik | асад |
اسد • (asad)
* (uncommon) Synonym of شیر (“lion”)

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسَد (asad), from Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad).

### Noun

اَسَد • (asad) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਅਸਦ)
* lion

### Proper noun

اَسَد • (asad) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਅਸਦ)
* (astronomy) Leo

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “اسَد”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسَد (asad), from Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad).

### Noun

اَسَدُ • (asadu) m (Devanagari असदु)
* lion

### Proper noun

اَسَدُ • (asadu) m (Devanagari असदु)
* (astronomy) Leo

### Further reading

* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “اَسَدُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
* “اسد”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَسَد (asad), Arabic أَسَد (ʔasad).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ə.səd̪/
* Rhymes: -əd̪

### Noun

اَسَد • (asad) m (Hindi spelling असद)
* lion

### Proper noun

اَسَد • (asad) m (Hindi spelling असद)
* (astronomy) Leo

### References

* “اسد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “اسد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “اسد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.