# دارچین
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

دارچین (darçın) (definite accusative دارچینی (darçını), plural دارچینلار (darçınlar))
* Arabic spelling of darçın (“cinnamon”)

#### Declension
## Central Kurdish
### Noun

دارچین (darçîn)
* cinnamon

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دارچین (dârčin, “cinnamon”), from Middle Persian *dār-i-čēnīk (literally “Chinese tree”).

### Noun

دارچین • (darçın, tarçın)
* cinnamon, a spice from the dried bark of several trees of the genus Cinnamomum

#### Derived terms

* دارچین آغاجی (darçın ağacı, “cinnamon tree”)
* دارچین صویی (darçın suyu, “distilled cinnamon water”)
* دارچینی (darçıni, “related to cinnamon”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tarçın
* → Albanian: darçin (regional)
* → Bulgarian: дарчи́н (darčín)
* → Macedonian: дарчин (darčin)
* → Serbo-Croatian: darčin / дарчин, tarčin / тарчин (regional)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tarçın1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4607
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دارچین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 216a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دارچین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 561
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cinnamomum”, 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 181
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دارچین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2001
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tarçın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دارچین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 881

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* دارچینی (dâr-e-čini, dârčini)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian *dār-i-čēnīk (literally “Chinese tree”), ultimately a combination of Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v, “tree”) + Sanskrit चीन (cīna, “China”) + -𐎡𐎣 (-i-k, adjectival suffix, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-ikas). Note also from the same source are Jewish Babylonian Aramaic דַּרְצִינִי (darṣīnī, “cinnamon”), Classical Syriac ܕܪܨܝܢܝ (dārṣīnī), ܨܝܢܕܪܓ (ṣīndreḡ, “cinnamon”) and Old Armenian դարիճենիկ (daričenik, “cinnamon”).

### Pronunciation

* (Iran) IPA: [d̪ɒːɾˈt͡ʃʰin]

### Noun

| Dari | دارچین |
| Iranian Persian | دارچین |
| Tajik | дорчин |
دارچین • (dârčin)
* cinnamon

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: دَارْصِينِيّ (dārṣīniyy), دَار صِينِيّ (dār ṣīniyy), دَارَصِينِيّ الصِين (dāraṣīniyy aṣ-ṣīn), دَارْصِين (dārṣīn), دَارْسِين (dārsīn)
** → Middle Armenian: դարիսեն (darisen), դարիսէն (darisēn), դարիսենի (dariseni), դարսենի (darseni), դարսենիկ (darsenik), դարսենեկ (darsenek)
* → Armenian: դարչին (darčʻin), դարիչին (daričʻin)
* → Azerbaijani: darçın / دارچین / дарчын
* → Baluchi: [script needed] (dār-čīnī)
* → Bats: დარიჩი (dariči)
* → Bengali: দারচিনি (darcini)
* → Georgian: დარიჩინი (daričini), დარიჭინი (darič̣ini)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: दारचीनी (dārcīnī)
    Urdu: دَارْچِینِی (dārcīnī)
* → Kazakh: даршын (darşyn)
* → Ottoman Turkish: دارچین (darçin, tarçin)
** Turkish: tarçın
** → Albanian: darçin (regional)
** → Bulgarian: дарчи́н (darčín)
** → Macedonian: дарчин (darčin)
** → Serbo-Croatian: darčin / дарчин, tarčin / тарчин (regional)
* → Pashto: دارچيني (dārčiní)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਲ਼ਚੀਨੀ (dāḷcīnī)
    Shahmukhi script: دالچینی (dālcīnī)
* → Swahili: dalasini
* → Tatar: дарчин (darçin)

### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դարիճենիկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 638b
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 137