# شاهین
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شاهین (šâhin, “falcon”), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (*šāhēn, literally “majestic, kingly”).

### Noun

شاهین • (şahin) (definite accusative شاهینی (şahini), plural شاهینلر (şahinler))
* peregrine falcon, a medium-sized falcon of the species Falco peregrinus

#### Derived terms

* اوسكوفلو شاهین (üsküflü şahin, “hooded falcon”)
* ترازو شاهینی (terazi şahini, “tongue of a balance”)
* شاهین باقیشلو (şahin bakışlı, “with piercing eyes”)
* شاهینجی (şahinci, “falconer”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: şahin
* → Albanian: shahin
* → Greek: σαΐνι (saḯni)
* → Serbo-Croatian: šáhin / ша́хин

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “شاهین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 136
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4414
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شاهین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 284a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 718
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Falco”, 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 546
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شاهین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2763
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şahin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1113

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* شهین (šahin) (archaic)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (*šāhēn, literally “majestic, kingly”) and the given name [Inscriptional Pahlavi needed] (šāhēn). By surface analysis, شاه (šâh) +‎ ـین (-in).
Compare Middle Armenian շահէն (šahēn) and Old Armenian Շահէն (Šahēn).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʃɑː.ˈhiːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃɑː.ɦíːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʃɑː.ɦíːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʃɑː.jíːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʃɔː.jín]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʃɒː.ɦíːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʃɔ.ɦín]

### Noun

شاهین • (šâhin) (plural شاهین‌ها (šâhin-hâ))
* falcon, especially the Barbary falcon
* pointer of a scale

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: شَاهِين (šāhīn)
* → Bengali: শাহীন (śahin)
* → Gujarati: શાહીન (śāhīn)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: शाहीन (śāhīn)
    Urdu: شاہین (śāhīn)
** → English: shahin, shaheen
* → Middle Armenian: շահին (šahin)
* → Ottoman Turkish: شاهین (şâhîn)
** Turkish: şahin
** → Albanian: shahin
** → Greek: σαΐνι (saḯni)
** → Serbo-Croatian: šáhin / ша́хин
* → Russian: шахин (šaxin)

### Proper noun

شاهین • (šâhin)
* a male given name, Shahin, Shaahin, or Shaheen, from Middle Persian

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: شَاهِين (šāhīn)
* → Turkish: Şahin

### References

* Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Šāhēn”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎ (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 274
* ↑ https://www.persicaantiqua.ir/article_159736_81d3868edb698f97b51aa76982a571aa.pdf