# افسانه
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

فسانه (fesâne)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian افسانه (afsâne, “tale, story, fable”).

### Noun

افسانه • (efsane)
* tale, legend, myth, fable, any fictitious narrative told to excite wonder
    Synonyms: اسطوره (ustura), داستان (dastan), قصه (kıssa), مثل (masal), ماصال (masal), حكایه (hikaye), مثال (misal), سركذشت (sergüzeşt)
* (figuratively) absurd and irrational story and idle talk, fiddle-faddle, fairy tale

#### Derived terms

* افسانه و افسون (efsane vu efsun, “idle talk”)
* افسانه گو (efsane gu, “storyteller”)
* افسانه‌جو (efsanecu, “simpleton”)
* افسانه‌پرداز (efsaneperdaz, “story writer”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: efsane

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “efsane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1370
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “efsane”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 245
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “افسانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 119
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fabula”, 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 538
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “افسانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 319
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “efsane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “افسانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 157

## Persian
### Alternative forms

فسانه (fasâne), افسان (afsân)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Inscriptional Pahlavi needed] (ʾfsʾnk /⁠afsānag⁠/, “fable”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔaf.sɑː.ˈna]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäf.sɑː.nǽ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäf.sɑː.nǽ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔäf.sɑː.nǽ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔäf.sɔː.nǽ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæf.sɒː.né]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔäf.sɔ.nǽ]

### Noun

اَفْسانِه • (afsâne) (plural افسانه‌ها (afsâne-hâ))
* tale, story, fable, legend, myth
    هزار افسانه ― hezâr afsâne ― a thousand tales
** c. 1650, Čandra Bhān, دیوان برهمن [The Brahman's divan]:به ایران می‌برد افسانه هندوستان بلبلbe irân mi-barad afsâne-ye hendustân bolbolNightingale, carry this tale of Hindustan to Iran
** c. 1655, دبستان مذاهب [Dabistān-i Mazāhib]:مادر شت زرتشت به رمز و اشارات است از آنکه نزد عوام افسانه که در دور از عقل باشد شکوهمند است.mâdar-e šat zartošt be ramz va ešârât ast az ân-ke nazd-e 'avâm afsâne ke dar dur az 'aql bâšad šokuhmand ast.The essential ideas of the honorable Zoroaster are in riddles and allegories, since fables, though they may be removed from reason, seem splendid to the common folk.

#### Inflection

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#### Derived terms

* افسانه‌ای (afsâne-i)
* افسانه‌جو (afsâne-ju)
* افسانه‌پرداز (afsâne-pardâz)
* افسانه‌گو (afsâne-gu)
* افسانه‌گویی (afsâne-guyi)
* افسانوی (afsânevi)

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: ավսա̈նա̈ (avsänä)
* → Azerbaijani: əfsanə
* → Gujarati: અફસાના (aphasānā)
* → Hindustani:
** Hindi: अफ़साना (afsānā)
** Urdu: اَفْسانَہ (afsāna)
* → Kazakh: әпсана (äpsana)
* → Ottoman Turkish: افسانه (efsâne), فسانه (fesâne)
** Turkish: efsane
* → Pashto: افسانه (afsāná)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਅਫ਼ਸਾਨਾ (afasānā), ਅਫਸਾਨਾ (aphasānā)
    Shahmukhi script: اَفْسانَہ (afsānah)
* → Uyghur: ئەپسانە (epsane)
* → Uzbek: afsona

### Proper noun

افسانه • (afsâne)
* a female given name, Afsaneh

### References

* Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “ʾfsʾng”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols