# جادو
## Arabic
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Proper noun

جَادُو • (jādū) f
* A town in north-western Libya

## Baluchi
### Noun

جادو • (jádú)
* magic
* enchantment

### See also

* جاتو (játú)
* سحر (sihr, sahr)
* جادوگر
* سحرگو (sahargo)
* سحر کنوخ (sihr kanox)

## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Alternative forms

* جاذو (cazu)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).

### Noun

جادو (cadu)
* sorcerer / sorceress
* fair eye

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: cadu
* Gagauz: cadı
* Ottoman Turkish: جادو (cadu, cadı), جاذو (cazı), جادی (cadu, cadı), جاذی (cazı)
** Turkish: cadı
** → Armenian: ջազի (ǰazi)
** → Bulgarian: джади́я (džadíja), джиди́я (džidíja)
** → Laz: ჯაზი (cazi), ჯადი (cadi) — Lome
** → Macedonian: џадија (džadija)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џа̀дија
    Latin script: džàdija

### Further reading

* Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 51

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* جاذو (cazı), جادی (cadu, cadı), جاذی (cazı)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish جادو (cadu), from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).

### Noun

جادو • (cadu, cadı)
* magician, sorcerer / sorceress
    Synonyms: بوكوجی (büyücü), سحرباز (sihrbaz)
* phantom; vampire, ghoul etc.
* (figurative) cantankerous woman, harridan

#### Descendants

* Turkish: cadı
* → Armenian: ջազի (ǰazi)
* → Bulgarian: джади́я (džadíja), джиди́я (džidíja)
* → Laz: ჯაზი (cazi), ჯადი (cadi) — Lome
* → Macedonian: џадија (džadija)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џа̀дија
    Latin script: džàdija

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جادو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 516a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جادی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 429a

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yʾtwk' /⁠ǰādūg⁠/, “wizardry; wizard”), from Old Persian [script needed] (y-a-tu-u /⁠yātu⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yaHtúš. Compare Sanskrit यातु (yātu).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [d͡ʒɑː.ˈðuː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒɑː.d̪úː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒɑː.d̪úː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d͡ʒɑː.d̪úː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d͡ʒɔː.d̪ú]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒɒː.d̪úː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒɔ.d̪ú]

### Noun

جادو • (jâdu)
* magic, charm, enchantment, conjuration
    Synonyms: سحر (sehr), افسون (afsun), شعبده (ša'bade)
* (archaic) wizard, conjurer, sorcerer, witch
    Synonyms: ساحر (sâher), جادوگر (jâdugar), افسونگر (afsungar)
** c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The reign of Gushtāsp”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎:یکی جادو آمد به دین آوری به ایران به دعوی پیغمبری همی گوید از آسمان آمدم ز نزد خدای جهان آمدمyakē jādū āmad ba dīn āwarī ba ērān ba da'wā-yi payğambarī hamē gōyad az āsmān āmadam zi nazd-i xudā-yi jahān āmadamA sorcerer came to bring his religion To Iran, claiming to be a prophet. He would say, "I have come from the heavens, I have come from the Lord of the world."(Classical Persian romanization)
* (obsolete) juggling

#### Derived terms

* جادوگر (jâdugar)
* جادوگری (jâdugari)

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: ջադու (ǰadu)
* → Assamese: যাদু (zadu)
* → Baluchi: جادو
* → Bengali: জাদু (jadu)
* → Chagatai: جادو
** Uyghur: جادۇ (jadu)
** Uzbek: jodu
* → Georgian: ჯადო (ǯado)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: जादू (jādū)
    Urdu: جادو (jādū)
** → English: jadoo
* → Punjabi: جادو (jādū)
* → Pashto: جادو (jādū)
* → Sindhi: جادو (jādū)
* → Old Anatolian Turkish: جادو (cadu), جاذو (cazu)
** Azerbaijani: cadu
** Gagauz: cadı
** Ottoman Turkish: جادو (cadu, cadı), جاذو (cazı), جادی (cadu, cadı), جاذی (cazı)
*** Turkish: cadı
*** → Armenian: ջազի (ǰazi)
*** → Bulgarian: джади́я (džadíja), джиди́я (džidíja)
*** → Laz: ჯაზი (cazi), ჯადი (cadi) — Lome
*** → Macedonian: џадија (džadija)
*** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џа̀дија
    Latin script: džàdija
* → Turkmen: jady
* → Ushojo: جادُو (jādū)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جادو (jādū).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d͡ʒɑː.d̪uː/
* Rhymes: -uː

### Noun

جادو • (jādū) m (Hindi spelling जादू)
* magic
* enchantment
* charm
* incantation

#### Synonyms

* ٹونا (ṭonā)
* (charm): ٹوٹکا

#### Derived terms

* جادوگر (jādūgar, “magician, witch, wizard, sorcerer”)
* جادوگری (jādūgarī, “magic skill, witchcraft, wizardry, sorcery”)
* جادوئی (jāduī, “magical, enchanted, bewitched”)

### References

* Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.