# قارن
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qaː.ra.na/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

قَارَنَ • (qārana) III (non-past يُقَارِنُ (yuqārinu), verbal noun قِرَان (qirān) or مُقَارَنَة (muqārana))
* (transitive) to become associated with [with accusative ‘what’]
* (transitive) to appear together with [with accusative ‘what’]
* (transitive) to juxtapose, to compare [with accusative ‘what’ and بِ (bi) ‘with what’]
    Synonym: وَازَنَ (wāzana)
    مهم أن تقرأ الآيات الموجودة في هذه الدروس وتقارنها بما تتعلمه.It is important that you read the verses in these lessons and compare them to what you are learning.

#### Conjugation
### References

* Freytag, Georg (1835) “قارن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 435
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قارن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1020–1021

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَارَنَ (qārana).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaː.ran/, [qaː.ran]

### Verb

قارن • (gāran) III (non-past يِقَارِن (yigārin))
* to compare

#### Conjugation
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* قارین (karın)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قرن (qarın), from Proto-Turkic *kạrïn (“belly, abdomen”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰺𐰣 (qr¹n¹ /⁠qarïn⁠/), Azerbaijani qarın, Bashkir ҡарын (qarın), Chuvash хырӑм (hyrăm), Kazakh қарын (qaryn), Kyrgyz карын (karın), Tatar qarın, Turkmen garyn and Uzbek qorin.

### Noun

قارن • (karın) (definitive accusative قارنی (karnı))
* belly, abdomen, the part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis
    Synonyms: بطن (batın), شكم (şikem)
* (colloquial) stomach, the organ in the body that stores food
    Synonyms: قورساق (kursak), معده (mi'de)
* (colloquial) womb, the organ in which the young are conceived
    Synonym: رحم (rahim)
* hull, the round and protuberant frame of a vessel or ship
    Synonym: تكنه (tekne)
* (by extension) the part of anything which resembles the human belly

#### Derived terms

* قارن آغریسی (karın ağrısı, “stomachache”)
* قارن آلتی (karın altı, “hypogastric region”)
* قارنداش (karındaş, “a sibling”)
* قارنلامق (karınlamak, “to strike or press with the hull”)
* قارنلو (karınlı, “possessed of a belly; capacious”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: karın

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karın”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2435
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 925
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Venter”, 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 1731
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قارن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3581
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1414

## Persian
### Etymology

Ultimately from Parthian 𐭊𐭓𐭍𐭉 (krny /⁠Kārēn⁠/), whence also Old Armenian Կարէն (Karēn).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [qɑː.ˈɾan]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qɑː.ɾǽn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qɑː.ɾǽn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [qɑː.ɾǽn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [qɔː.ɾǽn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qɒː.ɹǽn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [qɔ.ɾǽn]

### Proper noun

قارن • (qâran)
* (Iranian mythology) Qaran, an Iranian paladin, a character in Shahnameh
* Karen, a Parthian feudal family

#### Derived terms

* قارنوند (qârenvand)

### See also

* House of Karen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Further reading

* Gignoux, Philippe (1972) Glossaire des Inscriptions Pehlevies et Parthes [Glossary of Pahlavi and Parthians Inscriptions] (Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Supplementary Series; 1) (in French), London: Lund Humphries, page 55a
* Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1944) “Կարէն”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 24) (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 613–614

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَارَنَ (qārana).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qaː.ran/, [ˈqɑː.rˤɑn]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

قارن • (qāran) III (present بقارن (biqāren))
* to compare